Opinion ID: 1652716
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: Finally, Appellant asserts she was entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal because the Commonwealth failed to prove the element of intent necessary to convict her of complicity to murder. KRS 502.020(1); KRS 507.020(1)(a). It is elementary that intent may be inferred from the act itself or from the circumstances surrounding it. Tungate v. Commonwealth, Ky., 901 S.W.2d 41 (1995); Smith v. Commonwealth, Ky., 737 S.W.2d 683, 688 (1987); Lambert v. Commonwealth, Ky. App., 835 S.W.2d 299, 301 (1992). Appellant's confession of March 18, 1995, as corroborated by the location of the victim's body, the autopsy results, and the physical evidence obtained during the search of Appellant's residence, was sufficient to support her conviction of complicity to murder. For these reasons, the judgment of conviction and the sentence imposed upon Appellant by the Hart Circuit Court are affirmed. STEPHENS, C.J., and GRAVES, JOHNSTONE and WINTERSHEIMER, JJ., concur. STUMBO, J., dissents by separate opinion, with LAMBERT, J., joining that dissent.