Marion Parker Duke v. John W. Wingo, Warden

CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted in 1954 for manslaughter and sentenced to twenty-one years imprisonment. He attempted to appeal his conviction in forma pau-peris but the trial court denied him leave to so proceed. Appellant twice renewed his motion in the trial court but met with no success. The Court of Appeals of Kentucky affirmed the trial court’s decision without opinion. After several abortive attempts to attack his conviction collaterally in the Kentucky courts, Appellant petitioned for a writ of federal habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western…