Gilbert v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT

The appellant, Willard Gilbert, was convicted in the Wolfe Circuit Court on two counts of first-degree rape and was sentenced to serve forty years in the penitentiary. The alleged rape victim was the appellant’s granddaughter, Valerie Gilbert, who was eleven years old when the alleged rapes were committed. He appeals his conviction directly to this court as a matter of *70right pursuant to RCr 12.02 on the grounds that the trial court committed reversible error in allowing the Commonwealth, subsequent to its case in chief and after the defense had rested, to introduce…