Ex parte Bluejacket

Ex parte Bluejacket
1948 OK CR 94
198 P.2d 438
87 Okl.Cr. 390
Decided: 10/06/1948
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Habeas Corpus-Writ Denied Where Bail Fixed not Excessive.

Original proceeding by Bobby Bluejacket for writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he is illegally restrained of his liberty by C. P. Burford, Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, Okla. Writ denied.

Bobby Bluejacket, pro se.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Elmer W. Adams, Co. Atty., of Tulsa, for respondent.

BRETT, J. This is an original proceeding in which the petitioner, Bobby Bluejacket, alleges he is illegally restrained of his liberty by C. P. Burford, warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, Okla.; that the cause of his restraint to the best of his knowledge, information and belief is as follows: That on June 23, 1948, upon being convicted of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree he was sentenced by the court to serve 99 years in the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Okla., and the defendant was held to bail and is now confined in the State Penitentiary at McAlester in default of making bond fixed by the district court of Tulsa county, Okla., at $40,000.