Commonwealth v. Wine

VANCE, Justice.

We have granted discretionary review in this case to consider again the procedures available to a defendant who has been convicted of a crime and who maintains that his right to one appeal granted by the Kentucky constitution has been lost because he did not receive effective assistance of counsel to prosecute the appeal.

This case began in June 1978 with the indictment of the respondent in the Jefferson Circuit Court in a seventeen (17) count indictment charging him with one (1) count of first-degree sodomy, three (3) counts of first-degree sexual abuse, six (6) counts of…