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STEBENS v. HAND

No. 40,727

182 Kan. 304 (1958)

320 P.2d 790

WILMER LEE STEBENS, Petitioner, v. TRACY HAND, Warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 25, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilmer Lee Stebens, petitioner, was on the brief pro se.

Charles N. Henson, Jr., 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

SCHROEDER, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus in which petitioner seeks his release from confinement in the State Penitentiary.

On September 20, 1949, the County Attorney of Finney County, Kansas, filed an information in the district court of Finney County charging that the petitioner inflicted certain mortal wounds upon one John Walter Mooney with his fists and a blunt instrument, the exact...

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