IN RE COLEMAN

No. A-12784.

344 P.2d 1114 (1959)

In the Matter of the Habeas Corpus of James A. COLEMAN, No. 58654.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.

October 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. May, McAlester, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Lewis A. Wallace, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

James A. Coleman, petitioner, is confined in the State Penitentiary at McAlester, serving a life sentence by reason of the entry of a plea of guilty in the district court of Sequoyah County to a charge of murder.

The record shows that at the time of the entry of the plea in question, petitioner was a soldier stationed at Fort Chaffee, in Arkansas, near Fort Smith. He is a Negro, and the victim was an...

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