CARRIER v. HAND

No. 40,966

183 Kan. 350 (1958)

327 P.2d 895

ROBERT J. CARRIER, Petitioner, v. TRACY HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Carrier, petitioner, pro se.

John A. Emerson, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, was with him on the brief for the respondent.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

In this original proceeding in habeas corpus petitioner seeks his release from the state penitentiary in which he is presently confined.

On May 12, 1955, in the district court of Barber County, petitioner, being at the time represented by court-appointed counsel, entered his plea of guilty to the charge of grand larceny (theft of an automobile), and pursuant to G.S. 1949, 21-534, was sentenced to...

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