Odewahn v. Commonwealth

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Jacob Carl Odewahn appeals from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court overruling his RCr 11.42 motion to vacate a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment. His grounds are that his attorney failed to file a motion for a new trial although he had been requested to do so, and that his attorney failed to perfect an appeal.

*138This is the second RCr 11.42 motion which this appellant has filed in the Jefferson Circuit Court. (See Odewahn v. Ropke, Ky., 385 S.W.2d 163 (1964). The first motion did not include the grounds that his attorney had failed to file a motion for a new…