Pendleton v. Commonwealth ex rel. Rawlins

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Judgment was rendered in the Fayette County Court against Cornelius Pendleton in a bastardy proceeding. KRS Chapter 406, Bastardy. He sought to appeal to the Fayette Circuit Court, wherein his attempted appeal was held to be fatally defective for failure to file in proper time a certified copy of the judgment.

The judgment was entered in the Criminal Order Book in the Fayette County Court on August 5, 1959. On August 15, 1959, counsel for appellant requested the clerk of the Fayette County Court to prepare the necessary papers for appeal. On August 21, 1959, a photostatic…