LUCAS v. COWAN

Civ. A. No. 7157-A.

368 F.Supp. 1142 (1973)

John Wayne LUCAS, Petitioner, v. Henry E. COWAN, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court, W. D. Kentucky, Louisville Division.

August 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wayne Lucas, pro se, Paul K. Murphy, Louisville, Ky., for petitioner.

Ed. W. Hancock, Atty. Gen. of Ky., Frankfort, Ky., for respondent.


FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, OPINION AND ORDER

ALLEN, District Judge.

Petitioner, John Wayne Lucas, having exhausted his state court remedies, now asks that this Court set aside his sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon him by the Breckinridge Circuit Court, Hardinsburg, Kentucky, on November 28, 1962, and that he be allowed to go free or, in the alternative, be granted the right to withdraw his plea of guilty.

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