PLASTERS v. HOFFMAN

No. 40,318

180 Kan. 559 (1957)

305 P.2d 858

HARRY PLASTERS, Petitioner, v. ARTHUR HOFFMAN, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Plasters, pro se.

Robert J. Roth, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, was with him on the briefs for the respondent.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PARKER, J.:

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner, who is now an inmate of the state penitentiary because of a judgment rendered by the district court of Wilson County on March 23, 1942, sentencing him to life confinement in that institution under the habitual criminal statute (G.S. 1941 Supp., 21-107a) on his plea of guilty of the crime (G.S. 1935, 21-431) of assault with a deadly weapon...

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