ANDREWS v. HAND

No. 43,020

190 Kan. 109 (1962)

372 P.2d 559

LOWELL LEE ANDREWS, Appellant, v. TRACY A. HAND, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Ahrens and Richard C. Allen, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Buford Braly and Harry Hayward, of Kansas City, were with them on the briefs for Appellant.

J. Richard Foth, Assistant Attorney General, of Topeka, argued the cause, and William M. Ferguson, Attorney General, Park McGee, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert J. Foster, Special Assistant Attorney General, all of Topeka, were with him on the briefs for Appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

FATZER, J.:

This was a proceeding in habeas corpus. The petitioner-appellant is confined in the Kansas State Penitentiary pursuant to a sentence of death imposed by the district court of Wyandotte County on January 18, 1960, upon conviction by a jury on three separate counts of murder in the first degree for the premeditated killing of his father, mother and sister on November 29, 1958. Following denial of his motion...

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