Kitze v. Commonwealth

Opinion

ELDER, J.

Following a trial on July 9, 1990, a jury found Jeffrey Theodore Kitze guilty of rape and malicious wounding. On appeal, he asserts (1) that the trial court erred in overruling his objections to the Commonwealth’s statement in its closing argument that, if the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity, he would go free; (2) that the trial court erred in granting an instruction that indicated to the jury that no action or movement that was planned could result from an irresistible impulse; and (3) that the trial court erred in allowing the Commonwealth to introduce…