Bircham v. Buchanan

SIMS, Justice.

On Jan. 16, 1952, this court entered an order affirming the judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court, Criminal Branch, First Division, wherein it refused to grant Earl D. Bircham a writ of coram nobis. Birch-am v. Commonwealth, Ky., 245 S.W.2d 932. The following day Bircham filed his petition in the Lyon Circuit Court asking a writ of habeas corpus against Jess Buchanan, Warden of the Eddyville Penitentiary, to prevent the warden from executing him on Jan. 18th and to cause him to produce Bircham’s living body in court for a hearing on the writ. Hon. Ira D. Smith, Judge of the…