SPEARS v. COMMONWEALTH


253 S.W.2d 570 (1952)

SPEARS v. COMMONWEALTH et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 19, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davies & Hirschfeld, George Muehlenkamp, Newport, for appellant.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., H.D. Reed, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.


SIMS, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by Roosevelt Spears from the judgment of the Campbell Circuit Court denying him a writ of coram nobis. Spears assigns two errors for reversal: (1) The counsel the trial court appointed to defend him on an indictment charging murder was so inexperienced as to amount to no representation at all in that action; (2) the inexperience of his attorney did not appear in the record of the circuit court, therefore this court could not...

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