Lanham v. Commonwealth

PALMORE, Judge.

Appellant is a prisoner in the Kentucky State Reformatory at La Grange. He appeals from a judgment of the Oldham Circuit Court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petition shows that in 1952 appellant pleaded guilty in the Jefferson Circuit Court to a charge of storehouse breaking and his punishment was fixed at 5 years’ imprisonment. The order finding him guilty and setting the penalty provided additionally as follows:

“On motion of the Commonwealth’s attorney and the defendant, it is ordered by the Court that the rendition of the judgment in this case be…