Case Name: Billy PULLIAM, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1966-09-30
Citations: 406 S.W.2d 724
Docket Number: 
Parties: Billy PULLIAM, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 406
Pages: 724–725

Head Matter:
Billy PULLIAM, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
Sept. 30, 1966.
J. David Cole, Bowling Green, for appellant.
Robert Matthews, Atty. Gen., Charles W. Runyan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee.

Opinion:
CLAY, Commissioner.
The sole ground for reversal raised on this appeal is that our habitual criminal procedure, which allows the reading to the jury of an indictment and a conviction of another offense (to determine if the appellant was a second offender), violated appellant's rights under the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution and section 11 of the Kentucky Constitution. In three recent cases we have decided this question adversely to appellant's contention. Jones v. Commonwealth, Ky., 401 S.W.2d 68; Wilson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 403 S.W.2d 705; and Cole v. Commonwealth, Ky., 405 S.W.2d 753 (decided June 17, 1966).
The judgment is affirmed.