Whitaker v. Commonwealth

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Louis Whitaker appeals from a judgment sentencing him to two years’ imprisonment upon a verdict finding him guilty of breaking and entering a dwelling house. KRS 433.180. He contends the trial court erred in conducting the voir dire examination of the jury, in refusing to suppress certain evidence, in overruling a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal and in instructing the jury.

The prosecuting witness, Claude Geary, testified that when he left his apartment on June 26, 1965, the only entrance door was closed but unlocked and that upon his return he discovered his…