Conley v. Commonwealth

HOWERTON, Judge.

Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment on July 9, 1976, after pleading guilty to a charge of murder. This appeal is from an order of the Boone Circuit Court overruling appellant’s RCr 11.42 motion.

Appellant raises three questions on this appeal. All three issues are interrelated, and generally refer to the offer and acceptance of appellant’s plea of guilty.

Appellant charges that the trial court erred in overruling his motion, because the record indicates that his guilty plea was accepted without first determining that the appellant actually understood the law in relation…