NELSON v. WARDEN OF KANSAS STATE PENITENTIARY

No. 549-70.

436 F.2d 961 (1971)

Rex DeWayne NELSON, Appellant, v. WARDEN OF the KANSAS STATE PENITENTIARY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent Frizzell, Atty. Gen. and Edward G. Collister, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., have filed a motion to affirm and suggestions in support of summary affirmance on behalf of appellee.

Rex DeWayne Nelson has filed a memorandum opposing summary affirmance pro se.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Nelson appeals from denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In 1966, he was convicted of robbery in the first degree. The sentencing court having found that Nelson had been convicted of a prior felony in 1958, an augmented sentence of not less than twenty (20) nor more than forty-two (42) years was imposed pursuant to the Kansas Habitual Criminal Act, K.S.A. 21-107a. The conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal. State v. Nelson,

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