Howard v. Commonwealth

DAVIS Commissioner.

Granvil Howard is presently confined in the penitentiary at LaGrange serving a sentence of imprisonment for twenty-one years as the result of his conviction in the Pike Circuit Court of voluntary manslaughter. He filed a motion to vacate the judgment pursuant to RCr 11.42, and the motion was overruled without an eviden-tiary hearing. This appeal seeks a reversal of the order denying the motion to vacate. Two grounds for reversal are asserted by the appellant: (1) He was denied counsel at his preliminary hearing, and (2) his employed counsel failed to perfect and prosecute…