Waddle v. Howard

DAVIS, Commissioner.

George Waddle, a prisoner at the reformatory at LeGrange, filed in the Old-ham Circuit Court his petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he is being illegally restrained. He based that plea on his contention that the judgment of the Pulaski Circuit Court, by which he was sentenced to prison, was a void judgment. The trial court denied the petition for writ *234of habeas corpus on the authority of Ayers v. Davis, Ky., 377 S.W.2d 154, since Waddle had made no showing that the remedy afforded him by RCr 11.42 is inadequate.

The trial court ruled correctly. The mere fact…