WILLIAMS v. JONES


338 S.W.2d 693 (1960)

Henry WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. William L. JONES, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 23, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Williams, pro se.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., Ray Corns, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant and petitioner pro se, Henry Williams, was convicted in 1956 in the Knox Circuit Court upon a plea of guilty to the offense of armed assault with intent to rob and was sentenced by the court without a jury to life imprisonment. The statutory penalty for such an offense is "confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-one years or for life, or by death." KRS 433...

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