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PRATER v. HAND

No. 41,372

185 Kan. 405 (1959)

345 P.2d 634

DAVID GEORGE PRATER, Appellant, v. TRACY A. HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed November 7, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elisha Scott, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Samuel C. Jackson, John J. Scott, and Charles S. Scott, all of Topeka, were with him on the brief for the appellant.

Richard J. Foth, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, and John A. Emerson, Assistant Attorney General, were with him on the brief for the appellee.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PARKER, C.J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Leavenworth County denying petitioner's application for a writ of habeas corpus releasing him from the State Penitentiary where he is now serving an unexpired sentence of imprisonment imposed by the district court of Pratt County on the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of the crime of murder in the...

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