DE WOLF v. STATE

No. A-11919.

96 Okla. Cr. 382 (1953)

256 P.2d 191

DE WOLF v. STATE.

Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma.

April 7, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cleon A. Summers, Muskogee, and George Campbell, Sand Springs, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Owen J. Watts, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lewis A. Wallace, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


BRETT, J.

This is an original action in habeas corpus brought by Carl Austin DeWolf, wherein he alleges that he is being unlawfully restrained of his liberty by the warden of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma. He complains that the cause of his restraint is by reason of a certain conviction by jury and judgment and sentence entered in the district court of Tulsa county, Oklahoma, on October 5, 1949, fixing his punishment at death by electrocution, in an...

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