Wahl v. Commonwealth

GARDNER, Commissioner.

Dorris Truman Wahl was convicted the third time of a felony and sentenced to life imprisonment under what is often referred *770to as the Habitual Criminal Act. KRS 431.190.

In October 1970 the house of Mrs. Goldie Allin was forcibly entered and several items taken. Mrs. Allin was not living in the house at the time. There was nothing at the scene of the crime to indicate who the culprit was. Subsequently one of the items, a small vase, was identified by a friend of Mrs. Allin at a flea market in Evansville, Indiana. This discovery was related to Mrs. Allin who in turn passed…