Delaney v. Commonwealth

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment under which appellant was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years for the crime of holding a hostage. KRS 432.505.

The appellant admitted taking and holding a guard at the penitentiary as a hostage. He claims that he was requested and coerced into doing so by the warden. In *748substance he claims that the warden was disturbed by certain newspaper stories relating to prison abuses and that the warden promised to assist appellant in securing a parole if appellant would hold a guard as hostage and demand an audience…