Elliott v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Affirming.

These appeals are prosecuted, by William Elliott from a judgment of the Whitley Circuit Court denying-him a writ of coram nobis, and from a judgment of the Lyon Circuit Court refusing to grant him a writ of habeas corpus. By agreement the two appeals were heard together and both will be disposed of in this opinion.

Appellant and petitioner below, Elliott, was convict ed of murder in the Whitley Circuit Court and his punishment fixed at death. That judgment was affirmed on appeal and his petition for rehearing denied in 290 Ky. 502, 161 S. W.…