LETT v. COMMONWEALTH


461 S.W.2d 83 (1970)

Lee C. LETT, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 18, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee C. Lett, pro se, Ruben Hicks, Whitley City, for appellant.

John Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., George Rabe, Asst. Atty. Gen., James H. Barr, Frankfort, for appellee.


MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order overruling, without an evidentiary hearing, the appellant's post-conviction motion to vacate his conviction for murder.

In December 1939 Lett was indicted for murder. Reversible errors occurred in his first two trials, but on his third trial he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now, twenty-nine years after his conviction, he asserts that he was incompetent to stand trial at that time, that he...

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