TROWEL v. COMMONWEALTH


473 S.W.2d 134 (1971)

Carl Jackson TROWEL, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied December 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Tim McCall, Louisville, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., James B. Wooten, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PALMORE, Judge.

The appeal in this case is from an order overruling Carl Jackson Trowel's RCr 11.42 motion to vacate a judgment sentencing him to 21 years' imprisonment pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter under an indictment charging him with wilful murder. KRS 435.010, 435.020.

The motion to vacate specifies several respects in which it is claimed that Trowel's lawyer, whom he had retained on a fee-paying basis, did not...

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