Lee v. Buchanan

DUNCAN, Justice.

This appeal is from the judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding refusing to discharge the appellant from prison terms now being served in Kentucky State Penitentiary. The sole question presented 'is whether or not appellant was denied the right of trial by jury in contravention of Section 7 of the Kentucky Constitution.

At the October, 1952 term of the Butler Circuit Court, appellant entered pleas of guilty to three indictments, two of which charged the offense of grand larceny and one the offense of breaking and entering into a storehouse of another. Without the intervention of…