Hoskins v. Commonwealth

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying, without a hearing, appellant’s motion for relief under RCr 11.42. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment upon conviction of being an accessory before the fact to a murder. At the original trial and on appeal appellant was represented by competent counsel employed by him. His conviction was affirmed in Hoskins v. Commonwealth, Ky., 374 S.W.2d 839.

In this proceeding it is questionable that any of the grounds for setting aside the original judgment of conviction were sufficient even if proven upon a hearing. Some were raised on…