Legal Opinion

Collier v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)

Decided March 5, 1965Published

1Opinion of the Court

387 S.W.2d 858 (1965)

Clyde COLLIER, Jr., Appellant,

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 5, 1965.

Clyde Collier, Jr., pro. se.

Robert M. Matthews, Atty. Gen., Charles W. Runyan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

PALMORE, Judge.

Clyde Collier, Jr., appeals from a judgment overruling, without a hearing, his RCr 11.42 motion to vacate the judgment by which he was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. Cf. KRS 433.140.

Under the broad principle followed by the U. S. Supreme Court in Fallen v. United States, 378 U.S. 139, 84 S.Ct. 1689, 12 L.Ed.2d…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Fallen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Alphonzo Edwards v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
  4. Leonard Hall, Jr. v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
  5. United States v. WalkerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1952

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