Tippit v. Thomas

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Charles Tippit, a prisoner in Kentucky State Penitentiary, appeals from a judgment of the Lyon Circuit Court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

From the scanty record we gather that in 1959 appellant was found guilty in the Oldham Circuit Court of escape from La-Grange Reformatory while serving a three-year sentence there. Upon his conviction pursuant to KRS 432.390 he received an additional sentence of three years in the penitentiary to run consecutively with his former sentence.

In his petition appellant contends that he is wrongfully detained because…