UWANIWICH v. COMMONWEALTH


390 S.W.2d 658 (1965)

Joe Raymond UWANIWICH, alias Joe Johnson, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 14, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Raymond Uwaniwich, pro se.

Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., Charles W. Runyan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PALMORE, Judge.

The appellant, Joe Uwaniwich, is serving a life sentence pursuant to an armed robbery conviction in the Pike Circuit Court. The judgment was entered in 1939. This is an RCr 11.42 proceeding in which he appeals from an order overruling his motion to vacate.

The grounds alleged in support of the motion are that Uwaniwich was denied the effective assistance of counsel and that the instructions were improper in failing to authorize a penalty of...

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