Faught v. State

Daniel Lee Faught was jury-convicted of first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Greene County. On June 25, 1975, he appealed from that conviction and that appeal is now pending in this Court in Case No. 10,068. Before the transcript on appeal was filed in Case No. 10,068, Faught filed in the Circuit Court of Greene County what he denominated as a “Petition for Writ of Ha-beas Corpus,” but which in truth was a motion in the nature of a Rule 27.26 V.A. M.R. proceeding to vacate the judgment *751and sentence in Case No. 10,068. Following an evidentiary hearing, the Circuit Court of Greene County…