EX PARTE BUSBY

3 Div. 145.

165 So.2d 92 (1964)

Ex parte David BUSBY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Busby, pro se.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and John C. Tyson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an original petition for habeas corpus commenced in this court.

The papers filed by petitioner indicate that, in 1956, he pleaded guilty to an indictment for rape and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He prays for release from "his illegal incarceration in this cause."

Since Ex parte Simonton, 9 Port. 383, decided in 1839, it has been regarded as settled that the writ of habeas...

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