IN RE WILLIAMS

No. A-12782.

341 P.2d 652 (1959)

In the Matter of the Habeas Corpus of Edward Leon WILLIAMS.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.

June 26, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whit Pate, Oklahoma City, Thomas Dee Frasier, Tulsa, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Edward Leon Williams was sentenced by the district court of Tulsa County to die for the kidnapping of a ministerial student in Tulsa County. The victim was robbed of his money, his automobile taken, and at the end of a road in an isolated wooded area in Muskogee County the kidnapped young man was marched out and shot to death. The judgment of the trial court was appealed to this court, and the case...

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