EDWARDS v. NASH

No. 22662.

303 S.W.2d 211 (1957)

Junior Fenton EDWARDS, Petitioner, v. Elbert V. NASH, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Respondent.

Kansas City Court of Appeals. Missouri.

June 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James V. Horn, Kansas City, for petitioner.

John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., and Harold L. Henry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


CAVE, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding filed directly in this court, whereby the petitioner seeks to be released from the penitentiary because the judgment and sentence of the trial court is illegal, for the reasons hereafter discussed.

All italics herein are supplied.

The petition alleges in substance that the petitioner was charged, by information, with robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon,

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