CURRENT v. HAND

No. 41,139

184 Kan. 232 (1959)

336 P.2d 397

VIRGIL CURRENT, Petitioner, v. TRACY HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil Current, 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

JACKSON, J.:

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus. The petitioner is not a stranger to this court. A previous proceeding in habeas corpus, involving the same conviction and sentence which petitioner is still serving in the state penitentiary and which is here again attacked in these proceedings, will be found in Current v. Hudspeth, 173 Kan. 694, 250...

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