CUTTER v. BUCHANAN


286 S.W.2d 902 (1956)

Roy CUTTER, Appellant, v. W. Jess BUCHANAN, Warden, State Prison, Eddyville, Ky., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 3, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cutter, pro se.

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


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is by Roy Cutter from a judgment dismissing his petition for habeas corpus. The appellant is imprisoned in the Eddyville penitentiary under a judgment of the Oldham Circuit Court convicting him of escaping as a prisoner confined in the reformatory located in that county.

Waiving technical deficiencies in the petition, including a failure to file a copy of the judgment of conviction, we decide the case, as did the circuit judge...

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