Kentucky Supreme Court October 26, 2000, No. 1998-SC-1120-MR (Putty v. Commonwealth)

COOPER, Justice.

Appellant Bernard Keith Putty was convicted in the Hopkins Circuit Court of four counts of criminal solicitation of the murder of his father-in-law, Gary Clark, and was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a total of thirty years. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b).