Pankey v. Pound

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Carl Sims Pankey, Leonard Thomas Pope, and Verser Joseph Swaite have filed a petition for an order of mandamus against J. Miles Pound, Judge of the Second Division, Criminal Branch, Jefferson Circuit Court. The prayer of the petition is “for an order compelling the respondent to perform those acts necessary to grant the Petitioners due process and a fair trial and thereby prevent irreparable injury to the Petitioners.”

The petitioners and one Leonard Daniel Spears were indicted by the grand jury of the Jefferson Circuit Court on September 11, 1967, for willful murder and…