Jordan v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Jr., Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling appellant’s motion to set aside his judgment of conviction entered in January 1954, in a criminal proceeding in which appellant was charged with armed assault with intent to rob and given a life sentence.

Appellant contends that he was “defended by ineffective aid of court appointed counsel, inasmuch as counsel was appointed at the instant of the trial proceeding and did not have time to prepare an adequate defense, and let it he known to this petitioner that he was not being compensated and would not go out of his…