Harris v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice COOPER.

Following a trial by jury in the Fayette Circuit Court, Appellant, Timonte Deshaw Harris, was convicted of wanton murder, KRS 507.020(l)(b), and sentenced to thirty years in prison. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), asserting that (1) he was erroneously denied a directed verdict of acquittal due to the insufficiency of the evidence against him; (2) irrelevant and prejudicial evidence of a prior shooting of the victim by another person should have been excluded; (3) he was denied his constitutional right to prove that…