HAMPTON v. BURFORD

No. A-11557.

94 Okla. Cr. 161 (1951)

232 P.2d 407

HAMPTON v. BURFORD.

Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma.

May 29, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. L. Hill and Kirksey M. Nix, McAlester, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Owen J. Watts, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


JONES, J.

This is an original action in habeas corpus wherein the petitioner, Marvin Hampton, seeks to secure his release from confinement in the penitentiary.

The verified petition attacks the validity of a judgment and sentence of the district court of Osage county pronounced on March 13, 1937, wherein the petitioner was sentenced to serve a term of life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary upon a plea of guilty to the charge of murder.

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