WOODEN v. GOHEEN


255 S.W.2d 1000 (1953)

WOODEN v. GOHEEN et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Huddleston, Bowling Green, for appellant.

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


DUNCAN, Justice.

This appeal is from a declaratory judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court holding that appellant must accrue eight years of confinement in the penitentiary on each of two consecutive life sentences, a total of sixteen years, before he becomes eligible for parole.

Appellant was convicted on two charges of murder and was sentenced by separate judgments of the Lee Circuit Court on November 18, 1941, to serve two consecutive life sentences in the...

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