Porter v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Nathaniel Frank Porter and Wilmer Gene Rudy were sentenced in 1966 to life imprisonment upon a conviction of armed robbery. In July 1967 they filed a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. After a full consideration of affidavits and other documents submitted in support of the motion the trial court entered an order overruling the motion. Porter and Rudy have appealed from that order.

The offense of which Porter and Rudy were convicted was the armed robbery of a man on a street of Louisville, alleged to have been committed by Rudy with Porter…