WAGENKNECHT v. CROUSE

No. 8001.

344 F.2d 920 (1965)

Henry WAGENKNECHT, Appellant, v. Sherman CROUSE, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

April 27, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Branney, of Myrick, Criswell & Branney, Englewood, Colo., for appellant.

Richard H. Seaton, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Kansas (Robert C. Londerholm, Atty. Gen. of Kansas, with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before PICKETT and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Wagenknecht is confined in the Kansas State Penitentiary where he is serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife in 1954. He brought this habeas corpus action in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The petition, which was prepared without the assistance of counsel, is long and rambling and contains mostly an argument that he is innocent of the crime charged. The principal objection...

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