WILSON v. HAND

No. 40,580

181 Kan. 483 (1957)

311 P.2d 1009

CHARLES W. WILSON, Petitioner, v. TRACY HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petitioner was on the brief pro se.

Fred N. Six, assistant attorney general, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., attorney general, was with him on the brief for respondent.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

ROBB, J.:

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding.

In brief, petitioner was charged in an information, tried, and convicted of the crime of statutory rape committed on the 15th day of February, 1946. He denies that he is guilty. On May 28, 1946, he was sentenced by the Lyon district court to a term of from one to twenty-one years in the state penitentiary. He has served approximately eleven years of this...

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