Kraus v. Ropke

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The petition of Henry Sherman Kraus, a prisoner in the state penitentiary, filed in this Court on November 13, 1964, seeks a mandatory order to compel Frank A. Ropke, a judge of the Jefferson Circuit Court, to rule on a motion filed in that court by Kraus under RCr 11.42. Judge Ropke has made a response stating that on October 15, 1964, he entered an order overruling the motion. The fact that the motion has been ruled on makes the proceeding in this Court moot.

In recent months this Court has been presented with an inordinate number of cases just like this — a petition to…