Legal Opinion
Kenneth Lee Benoit v. John Will Wingo, Warden Kentucky State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1970No. 19886PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by Kenneth Lee Benoit, petitioner-appellant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Benoit was tried before a jury on a charge of armed robbery in the Jefferson County, Kentucky, Circuit Court. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. He was sentenced accordingly by the trial judge on October 23, 1964, which sentence he is now serving in a Kentucky state prison.
The substance of appellant’s claim on this…
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