Thacker v. Commonwealth

WILHOIT, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment sentencing the appellant to 10 years’ imprisonment for incest.

The only argument presented on appeal is that the trial court committed reversible error when it permitted two older married sisters of the victim to testify that their father, the appellant, had touched them “in a sexual way” on numerous occasions when they were younger and lived at home with their parents. The appellant maintains that this testimony was improperly admitted under Kentucky case law because the “evidence was too remote in time and inadmissible to show intent, motive or…