Pryor v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Chief Justice.

This is an RCr 11.42 petition to vacate a judgment of the Hopkins Circuit Court. The petition was dismissed without a hearing by the Hopkins Circuit Court and comes before this Court on its merits. The appellant has been before this Court on two previous occasions for post-conviction review of this judgment. See Pryor v. Thomas, Ky., 361 S.W.2d 279, and Pryor v. Thomas, Ky., 377 S.W.2d 156. In the latter case this Court dismissed appellant’s habeas corpus petition on the ground that there was no showing that his remedy by motion under RCr 11.42 was inadequate.

Pryor was…