Wilson v. Commonwealth

WILHOIT, Judge.

These appeals are from a judgment of the McLean Circuit Court sentencing the appellant to ten years’ imprisonment for second-degree arson, and from an order denying on procedural grounds the appellant’s motions to vacate that judgment based primarily on grounds of newly discovered evidence and the ineffective assistance of trial counsel. We shall first consider the appeal from the judgment convicting and sentencing the appellant to prison.

The appellant argues that the trial court erred in allowing a prosecution witness to testify that he had heard on the streets that the…