Curtis Lee Mayes, Cross-Appellee v. Dewey Sowders, Warden, Cross-Appellant

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has appealed from an order of the District Court granting a writ of habeas corpus to the petitioner, Curtis Lee Mayes, with respect to two murder convictions in its courts. The petitioner has appealed from the denial to him of a writ of habeas corpus by the same District Court with respect to two robbery convictions which were involved in the murders.

Curtis Lee Mayes was convicted by a jury in the Jefferson County, Kentucky, Circuit Court, Criminal Division on two counts of murder and two counts of robbery. The jury imposed consecutive…