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BURKS v. COMMONWEALTH

296 S.W.2d 737 (1956)

Henry Clay BURKS, Movant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 14, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Clay Burks, pro se, Eddyville, for appellant.

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., Robert F. Matthews, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

CLAY, Commissioner.

We have before us a motion "to prosecute a delayed appeal", a most unusual proceeding in this Court.

Movant was convicted of a crime in the Jefferson Circuit Court sometime prior to March 1954, and sentenced to serve a term in the penitentiary at Eddyville. According to his affidavit he filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Jefferson Circuit Court on March 3, 1954, which was dismissed on March 29. He states that he attempted...

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