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SIMS v. ALVIS

No. 13290.

253 F.2d 114 (1958)

Clay SIMS, Appellant, v. R. W. ALVIS, Warden, Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 24, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gardner Reed, Newport, Ky., Clay Sims, pro se, on the brief, for appellant.

William N. Vance, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ohio, William B. Saxbe, Atty. Gen. of Ohio, on the brief, for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, MARTIN, Circuit Judge, and MATHES, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal is from an order of the district court denying application for writ of habeas corpus for release of the petitioner from the Ohio State Penitentiary. Appellant was committed to this penal institution in 1931 by judgment of a Common Pleas Court of Ohio, of appropriate jurisdiction, wherein he was sentenced to life imprisonment on a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree.

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