Ex parte Crouch

Ex parte Crouch
1917 OK CR 83
164 P. 133
13 Okl.Cr. 296
Case Number: No. A-2736
Decided: 04/18/1917
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

HABEAS CORPUS Discharge Sufficiency of Petition.

Application by James H. Crouch for writ of habeas corpus. Writ denied.

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W.F. Harn, for petitioner.

R. McMillan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

DOYLE, P.J. This was an application to this court for a writ of habeas corpus. It appears from the petition that the petitioner was tried in the district court of Oklahoma county, Edward Dewes Oldfield, presiding judge, and was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years. Under said sentence he was committed to the custody of M.C. Binion, sheriff of said county, on a commitment directing said sheriff to transport petitioner to the penitentiary at McAlester, and the petitioner claims that his imprisonment is illegal, and among other things states that such illegality consists in this: