Couch v. Commonwealth

CATINNA, Commissioner.

James Christopher Couch appeals from a judgment of the Rockcastle Circuit Court entered on his plea of guilty to charges of housebreaking, six years; robbery, six years; and robbery, six years. Couch insists that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to withdraw his plea of guilty to these charges.

A Rockcastle County grand jury indicted Couch on one count of housebreaking and two counts of armed robbery. While these indictments were pending, Couch was serving a two-year sentence in the Kentucky State Reformatory as a result of a conviction in the Lincoln Circuit…