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407 S.W.2d 137

Odewahn v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 14, 1966

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1966-10-14

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently September 1970

2 state decisions

Relies on Tipton v. Commonwealth · Odewahn v. Ropke · Benoit v. Commonwealth

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Decided 1966-10-14

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WILLIAMS, Judge.

¶1Jacob Carl Odewahn appeals from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court overruling his RCr 11.42 motion to vacate a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment. His grounds are that his attorney failed to file a motion for a new trial although he had been requested to do so, and that his attorney failed to perfect an appeal.

¶2*138This is the second RCr 11.42 motion which this appellant has filed in the Jefferson Circuit Court. (See Odewahn v. Ropke, Ky., 385 S.W.2d 163 (1964). The first motion did not include the grounds that his attorney had failed to file a motion for a new trial or perfect an appeal. Consequently, he is precluded from asserting those grounds on a second motion. Tipton v. Commonwealth, Ky., 398 S.W.2d 493 (1966); Walker v. Wingo, Ky., 398 S.W.2d 885 (1966).

¶3There is no merit to appellant’s argument in any event since the judgment of the court shows a motion for a new trial was overruled, and since his motion to vacate does not indicate that he requested his attorney to file an appeal. Benoit v. Commonwealth, Ky., 402 S.W.2d 706 (1966).

¶4The judgment is affirmed.

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