Holt v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The judgment denied the appellant, Jewell Holt, a prisoner in the penitentiary, the right to be released on a writ of ha-beas corpus. The petition for the writ and the brief filed in this court set forth twelve grounds for relief from a judgment of the Laurel Circuit Court entered in January, 1956, and the accompanying sentence of Holt to imprisonment for life upon a plea of guilty. The indictment charged him with housebreaking and having previously been successively convicted of two other felonies, namely, housebreak*41ing and transporting a stolen automobile in interstate…