GALBRAITH v. LACKEY

No. A-12643.

340 P.2d 497 (1959)

Ben T. GALBRAITH, Petitioner, v. W. A. LACKEY, District Judge, Ewing C. Sadler, County Attorney and Dee Sanders, Sheriff of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, Respondents.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.

June 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. L. Hill, McAlester, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney Gen., Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ben P. Choate, Jr., Asst. County Atty., Pittsburg County, McAlester, for respondents.


POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Ben T. Galbraith presently a prisoner in the State Penitentiary at McAlester, where he is serving a life sentence by reason of conviction in the district court of Pittsburg County of the crime of murder, on July 23, 1958 filed in this Court, per se, his petition for a writ of mandamus. The purpose of the petition is to require the respondents to afford him a speedy trial on two additional murder charges...

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