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LAWTON v. HAND

No. 41,774

186 Kan. 385 (1960)

350 P.2d 28

VIRGIL GAIL LAWTON, Petitioner, v. TRACY A. HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 5, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil Gail Lawton, petitioner, was on the briefs pro se.

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

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FATZER, J.:

In this original habeas corpus proceeding the petitioner, Virgil Gail Lawton, seeks release from the Kansas State Penitentiary where he is presently confined.

On March 20, 1959, the petitioner was about to be arraigned in the district court of Montgomery County, Kansas, on an information charging him with feloniously having a pistol in his possession and under his control after having previously...

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