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COPPAGE v. HAND

No. 41,543

185 Kan. 708 (1959)

347 P.2d 400

LEROY COPPAGE, Petitioner, v. TRACY A. HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 12, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy Coppage, petitioner, pro se.

J. Richard Foth, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, was with him on the briefs for the respondent.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

JACKSON, J.:

This is an original petition for habeas corpus. The petition prepared by petitioner, an inmate of the penitentiary at Lansing, is not a work of legal art. Under the circumstances, we have given the petition the most liberal construction possible, but must say at the outset that we fail to find any ground for the allowance of the writ.

Petitioner was arraigned...

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