FITCH v. EDMONDSON

No. 39,627

177 Kan. 253 (1954)

277 P.2d 627

WILLIAM HOWARD FITCH, Petitioner, v. C.A. EDMONDSON, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, C.W. WILSON, Record Clerk, Kansas State Penitentiary, and the State of Kansas, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 11, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Howard Fitch, petitioner, was on the briefs pro se.

Harold R. Fatzer, Attorney General, and James L. Galle, Assistant Attorney General, were on the briefs for the respondents.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus in which petitioner seeks his release from the Kansas state penitentiary.

The record before us establishes the following factual background:

On February 19, 1948, petitioner entered his plea of guilty in case No. 4045 in the district court of Butler County to the charge of larceny of an automobile (G.S. 1949, 21-533), and was sentenced to confinement...

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