Francis Wilson v. Martin J. Wiman, Superintendent, Kentucky State Reformatory

CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

In 1964 the Petitioner was convicted in the Monroe Circuit Court of storehouse breaking and, as a third offender, was sentenced to life imprisonment as authorized under Kentucky’s Habitual Criminal Act, K.R.S. § 413.190. He perfected an appeal to the highest court of Kentucky, Wilson v. Commonwealth, 403 S.W.2d 705 (Ky.1966), and after affirmance of his conviction, he exhausted the available state post conviction remedies. Wilson v. Commonwealth, 403 S.W.2d 710 (Ky.1966). Petitioner then filed an ap*969plication for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District…