Dixon v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice COOPER.

Appellant, Roy E. Dixon, was convicted by a Henderson Circuit Court jury of trafficking in a controlled substance in the first degree and sentenced to ten years in prison. Upon finding Appellant to be a persistent felony offender in the second degree, the jury enhanced the sentence to twenty years. Appellant appeals to this court as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), asserting two claims of reversible error, viz: (1) the trial court permitted a police officer to express an opinion as to the meaning of markings on a small piece of paper found in…