Court Opinion

ID: 9748859
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:15:39.747357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:31.629938
License: Public Domain

ABRAMSON, J.,
concurring:
I concur with the majority opinion but write separately to observe that Swain v. Commonwealth, 887 S.W.2d 346 (Ky.1994), cited in footnote 4, actually involved five separate robberies. The evidence at trial established that in one robbery Swain referred to a gun, which no one saw, and then demanded money. Id. at 348. In upholding the denial of a directed verdict on that first-degree robbery charge, the Swain court relied solely on Merritt v. Commonwealth, 386 S.W.2d 727 (Ky.1965), a case, which was recently overruled in Wilburn v. Commonwealth, 312 S.W.3d 321 (Ky.2010). Today, we clarify that the same result follows from the plain language of KRS 515.020(l)(c).