BURKS v. COMMONWEALTH


259 S.W.2d 68 (1953)

BURKS v. COMMONWEALTH et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 19, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Clay Burks, pro se.

J. D. Buckman, Jr., Atty. Gen., and W. Owen Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

We have another case in which a prisoner in the LaGrange Reformatory is ostensibly practicing his own case in seeking release upon habeas corpus. The case is prepared in the same style and pattern as other cases by someone who is not a lawyer and one who has a muddled conception of certain constitutional rights of a citizen charged with crime. The rambling and indefinite petition and briefs in the instant case, like in the others, make it almost...

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