EX PARTE SHARPE

No. 235.

36 F.Supp. 386 (1941)

Ex parte SHARPE.

District Court, W. D. Kentucky.

January 16, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Clarke Otte and S. Rush Nicholson, both of Louisville, Ky., and Henry S. McGuire, of Lexington, Ky., for plaintiff.

W. Owen Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Kentucky, for Commonwealth of Kentucky.


MILLER, District Judge.

The petitioner Howard Sharpe complains in this application for a writ of habeas corpus that he is unlawfully confined in the Eddyville Penitentiary of the State of Kentucky, to which institution he was committed following a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court at Lexington, Kentucky.

The petitioner states that on December 12, 1937, one Richard Mutran was murdered in Lexington, Kentucky, that on April 12, 1938, the petitioner was indicted...

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