EX PARTE ROCKHOLT

3 Div. 911.

122 So.2d 162 (1960)

Ex parte Edward A. ROCKHOLT.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Rockholt, pro se.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Jas. W. Webb, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


LAWSON, Justice.

This is an original petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in this court by Edward A. Rockholt pro se. Rockholt is confined in Kilby Prison under a fifteen-year sentence based on a conviction of rape in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County in 1947.

It appears from the petition that Rockholt applied to a judge of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. § 6, Title 15, Code 1940. The petition...

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