Martin v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an action instituted in the Fayette Circuit Court, pursuant to RCr 11.42, in which appellant, Hassie Martin, sought to have .set aside a judgment of that court by which he was convicted of murder on February 3, 1961, and was sentenced to death.

The original judgment of conviction was appealed to this Court and affirmed in Martin v. Commonwealth, Ky., 361 S.W.2d 654. The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari on January 21, 1963, and a petition for rehearing was overruled on February 22, 1963.

Afterwards Martin filed a habeas corpus petition…