VASSER v. RAINES

No. 6236.

274 F.2d 369 (1959)

James Vernon VASSER, Appellant, v. R. R. RAINES, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

December 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Yegge, Denver, Colo., for appellant.

Owen J. Watts, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, was with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before HUXMAN, PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.


HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

The question presented for decision is whether appellant's conviction as a habitual criminal and his sentence of twenty-five years in the District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, is void because it violates the Federal Constitution.

Appellant, James Vernon Vassar, was convicted in the above entitled case on August 26, 1956, on an information charging the crime of burglary. The information included a charge, "That said defendant, heretofore...

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