May v. Conley

MOREMEN, Judge.

Petitioner, Headmon May, a prisoner now confined at Eddyville, has filed a petition in this court by which he seeks to obtain a writ of mandamus to compel the Honorable Hollie Conley, Judge of the Floyd Circuit Court, to vacate, under RCr 11.42, the judgment and sentence under which he is now confined.

Petitioner avers that his motion in the circuit court was based on the grounds of newly discovered evidence to the effect that he was, at the time of the original trial, a person of unsound mind. He prays this court “to enter an order forthwith granting petitioner the redress…