Opinion ID: 1871050
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: errors in final judgment.

Text: Although the jury was only instructed on seven counts of criminal abuse and the jury found Appellant guilty of only those seven counts, the amended final judgment erroneously adjudged him guilty of eight counts of criminal abuse and sentenced him to ten additional years of imprisonment for the eighth count. The Commonwealth concedes the error. Appellant also asserts that the final judgment fails to state whether his sentences are to run consecutively or concurrently as required by RCr 11.04(1). If the court does not specify the manner in which a sentence is to run, it shall run concurrently with any other sentence which the defendant must serve, subject to exceptions not applicable here. KRS 532.110(2). However, Appellant concedes that at the sentencing hearing the trial judge orally expressed his intent to run the sentences consecutively [i]nsofar as possible for a total of 120 years. We do not know whether the trial judge changed his mind or whether the omission from the judgment was a clerical error. Cardwell v. Commonwealth, 12 S.W.3d 672, 674 (Ky. 2000). If the omission was a clerical error and the trial judge intended to impose a sentence in excess of seventy years, the sentence violates KRS 532.110(1)(c). The judgment must be vacated insofar as it recites a conviction of and sentence for an offense of which Appellant was not convicted, and insofar as it imposes a maximum aggregate sentence in excess of seventy years. Accordingly, Appellant's convictions are affirmed but the judgment entered pursuant to those convictions is vacated and this case is remanded to the Lawrence Circuit Court for entry of a new judgment that conforms to RCr 11.04(1) and KRS 532.110(1)(c). All concur.