Commonwealth v. Stamps

LEIBSON, Justice.

In August, 1977 in Christian Circuit Court, Melvin Stamps pled guilty and was convicted of a felony, knowingly receiving stolen property of a value over $100. He was sentenced to one year probated for five years. This is an RCr 11.42 proceeding attacking the validity of that conviction, begun in August, 1982.

In July, 1980 Stamps was convicted by a jury on charges of first-degree burglary and for being a persistent felony offender. His sentence as enhanced by the persistent felony conviction was twenty years. Three days later the court revoked his probation on the 1977 one…