Sharpe v. Buchanan

In an appeal from a judgment dismissing the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the petition alleging that the appellant was convicted in Kentucky on an indictment charging murder and that the conviction was the result of a written confession extorted from the appellant under duress,

It appearing that the appellant had not appealed from the judgment and sentence to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, that although he filed application for a writ of coram nobis which was denied by the Circuit Court and on appeal by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, but that the appellant had not…