Hampton v. Whaley

Van Sant, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appeal is from a judgment denying appellant his freedom, under a writ of habeas corpus, from confinement in the Kentucky State Reformatory, wherein he is serving a life sentence following conviction in the Boyd Circuit Court under KRS 431.190, commonly known as the Habitual Criminal Act.

With the record in this case, appellant, acting as his own attorney, has filed the record, sans evidence, of the case wherein he was convicted in the Boyd Circuit Court. He charges that the indictment “fails to conform to the ‘law of the land’ or/and judgment of your peers,”…