CULLEN, Commissioner.
The appeal is from an order overruling, without a hearing, a motion by appellant under RCr 11.42 to vacate a judgment of October 1956 under which he was given a life sentence as an habitual criminal.
The sole ground of attack on the judgment is that the procedure under which the jury was given evidence of the prior convictions of the defendant before it made its determination of guilt or innocence of the current offense charged, and even...
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