IN RE WHITEAKER

No. A-13028.

364 P.2d 1118 (1961)

In re: Habeas Corpus, Edgar Fred WHITEAKER.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.

September 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ewing C. Sadler, McAlester, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Lewis A. Wallace, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


BUSSEY, Judge.

Petitioner, Edgar Fred Whiteaker, an inmate of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, filed on March 23, 1961, this petition for writ of habeas corpus, directed to the Warden of the State Penitentiary, where he is confined, requesting that he be released therefrom because he is being illegally restrained of his liberties in that his confinement in said institution is illegal, unconstitutional, and without due process of law.

The petitioner presents...

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