Wooden v. Goheen

DUNCAN, Justice.

This appeal is from a declaratory judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court holding that appellant must accrue eight years of confinement in the penitentiary on ea.ch of two consecutive life sentences, a total of sixteen years, before he becomes eligible for parole. ■

Appellant was convicted on two charges of murder and was sentenced by separate judgments of the, Lee Circuit Court on November 18, 1941, to. serve .two consecutive life sentences in the State peniten*1001tiary. He was committed to the Kentucky State Reformatory on November 24, 1941, and since that date has continuously…