SHAWAN v. COX

No. 8107.

350 F.2d 909 (1965)

Joe SHAWAN, Appellant, v. H. A. COX, Warden, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

September 16, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Horiskey, Cheyenne, Wyo., for appellant.

L. D. Harris, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. (Boston E. Witt, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges.


HILL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Shawan is presently incarcerated in the New Mexico State Penitentiary and appellee is the warden of that institution. The appeal is from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant, a Cherokee Indian, at the time of his arrest was sixty years of age, an indigent person without sufficient funds to employ an attorney and an itinerant worker with less than an eighth grade education. He was arrested in Las...

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