Court Opinion

ID: 5068053
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 10:16:00.691026+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:42.511213
License: Public Domain

WILHOIT, Judge,
concurring in result.
Because of the singular reasoning of the Court in Baker v. Commonwealth, Ky., 677 S.W.2d 876 (1984), followed in Gray v. Commonwealth, Ky., 695 S.W.2d 860 (1985), I concur in the majority opinion. Although the appellant does not specifically argue on appeal that the instruction on second-degree assault, which instructed on wantonness, should not have been given, at trial he objected “to the instructions dealing with wanton[n]ess or recklessness,” and on appeal he maintains “there was not even a proffer of evidence that wantonness or recklessness was involved.” Contrary to the appellee’s argument, I believe the appellant’s failure now to specifically attack the second-degree assault instruction does not constitute a waiver of his complaint with respect to the self-protection instruction.