WAHL v. COMMONWEALTH


490 S.W.2d 769 (1972)

Dorris WAHL, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

November 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Deep, King, Deep, Branaman, Hunt & Sheffer, J. Ron Daniels, West, Markwell & Bryant, Henderson, for appellant.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., John C. Ryan, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, B. C. Cubbage, Jr., Commonwealth Atty., Henderson, for appellee.


GARDNER, Commissioner.

Dorris Truman Wahl was convicted the third time of a felony and sentenced to life imprisonment under what is often referred to as the Habitual Criminal Act. KRS 431.190.

In October 1970 the house of Mrs. Goldie Allin was forcibly entered and several items taken. Mrs. Allin was not living in the house at the time. There was nothing at the scene of the crime to indicate who the culprit was....

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