COTTRELL v. McLEOD

No. A-12720.

342 P.2d 240 (1959)

Etoye A. COTTRELL, Petitioner, v. H.C. McLEOD, Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Respondent.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.

July 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sid White, Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

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


POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Etoye A. Cottrell seeks release from the State Penitentiary at McAlester, where he is serving a sentence of 40 years imposed by the district court of Johnston County on September 3, 1950, in a case where petitioner was charged with the crime of first degree robbery, and entered a plea of guilty.

In his original petition, prepared by petitioner without aid of counsel and filed in this Court...

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