STATE v. TRINKLE

No. 41,911

186 Kan. 809 (1960)

352 P.2d 937

THE STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. BILLY MERLE TRINKLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant was on the brief pro se.

Leighton A. Fossey, County Attorney, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., Attorney General, Robert E. Hoffman, Assistant Attorney General, and J. Richard Foth, Assistant Attorney General, were with him on the brief for the appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

The defendant, Billy Merle Trinkle, was duly convicted of the offense of forcible rape (G.S. 1949, 21-424) in the district court of Linn County, and pursuant thereto was sentenced to the state penitentiary under the provisions of that statute.

He subsequently filed in this court an original proceeding in habeas corpus in which he charged, in substance, that his imprisonment was illegel because the...

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