Kentucky Revised Statutes
Ky. Rev. Stat. § 202.140 (2026)
Repealed, 1968
✓ current as of May 2026
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Catchline at repeal: Defendant's right to jury -- Oath -- Instructions to jury -- Evidence. History: Repealed 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 63. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 67, sec. 13. -- Amended 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 17, sec. 6. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective November 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 216aa-79.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1951–1964 · leading case: Denton v. Commonwealth, 383 S.W.2d 681 (Ky. Ct. App. 1964).
Denton v. Commonwealth, 383 S.W.2d 681 (Ky. Ct. App. 1964). “KRS 202.140 provides, among other things, that if the petition filed requests that the defendant be adjudged incompetent, the court shall impanel a jury and administer a special oath to them and instruct them upon the whole case.”
Powers v. Citizens Union Nat'l Bank & Trust Co., 221 F. Supp. 617 (E.D. Ky. 1963). “The court shall forthwith hear the case as provided in KRS 202.140. “ (3) No mentally ill person or mentally defective person shall be committed to a state mental hospital or an institution for mental defectives unless he has been adjudged to be either mentally ill or mentally…”
Cadden v. Commonwealth, 242 S.W.2d 409 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951). “KRS 202.140, 202.200. We are aware of no-law that requires the entry of judgments in special proceedings like this to be entered .”
Mason v. Commonwealth, 283 S.W.2d 845 (Ky. Ct. App. 1955). “The form of such instruction is given in KRS 202.140. The verdict went beyond the inquiry and gratuitously reported, “We further find that all property and value possessed by Allie Reese Mason as of July 27, 1954, should be reverted to her name.”
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