CLAUNCH v. PAGE

No. 53-70.

427 F.2d 841 (1970)

Oma D. CLAUNCH, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ray H. PAGE, Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 22, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verne D. J. Philips, Austin, Tex. (Teddy L. Henderson, Austin, Tex., with him on the brief) for petitioner-appellant.

H. L. McConnell, Asst. Atty. Gen. (G. T. Blankenship, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, with him on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

In this state prisoner habeas corpus case, petitioner-appellant seeks relief from a 1945 Oklahoma sentence of life imprisonment for the crime of murder. The federal district court held an evidentiary hearing and denied relief.

The offense was committed on August 21, 1945, and the petitioner, 14 years old at the time, was arrested subsequently in Texas. He was returned to Oklahoma and after he had been in jail a few days his mother...

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