Duke v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appellant, Marion Parker Duke, is a prisoner in the state penitentiary under a conviction of voluntary manslaughter. Apparently with the assistance of a fellow prisoner who has a smattering and defective knowledge of criminal law, he has personally filed in the Warren Circuit Court and as appeals to this court several proceedings to obtain relief from the judgment. The proceedings and the appeals have been dismissed for lack of merit. One habeas corpus proceeding is Duke v. Commonwealth, Ky., 287 S.W.2d 423. In March, 1957, Duke filed a petition for a writ of coram…