Paulley v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice MINTON.

I. INTRODUCTION.

Rocky Brown was shot and killed while attempting to hold the door to prevent a forced entry into Adolphus Stone’s home. A circuit court jury convicted Henny Gunn (a/k/a Henry Gunn) and Steven Paulley of, among other offenses, murdering Brown. Both Gunn and Paulley separately appealed to this Court as a matter of right.1 Because the operative facts and many of the issues are the same for both appeals, we have elected to resolve both appeals in this combined opinion. Because the trial court improperly failed to grant a request to…