Mayo v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice MINTON.

A circuit court jury convicted H. Drew Mayo of one count of first-degree rape, one count of first-degree sodomy, and of being a second-degree persistent felony offender (PFO 2). Mayo now appeals from the resulting judgment as a matter of right. 1 Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY.

The grand jury indicted Mayo for raping and sodomizing his estranged wife by forcible compulsion and for being a PFO 2. The charges proceeded to jury trial. At trial, the victim testified that she and Mayo had been separated for about…