Ex parte Arthur

Ex parte Arthur
1937 OK CR 3
64 P.2d 344
60 Okl.Cr. 287
Decided: 01/09/1937
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Buber Arthur. Writ denied.

Buber Arthur, pro se.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM. This is an original petition in habeas corpus. The petitioner alleges that he is unlawfully restrained by Jess H. Dunn, warden of the state penitentiary. That the trial court deprived him of all his legal rights, and refused to subpoena witnesses or to furnish him counsel or to allow him to employ counsel. He further alleges that he was lodged in jail on suspicion and was forced to confess. He admits he entered his plea of guilty to the crime charged against him, and that he was sentenced by the trial court to life imprisonment.

Response and a demurrer has been filed to the petition, in which it is denied the defendant was deprived of any of his legal rights as guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the United States or the state of Oklahoma. The minutes of the court clerk show conclusively that the petitioner entered his plea to the allegations admitting his guilt and entered his plea of guilty, whereupon the court sentenced him to imprisonment in the state penitentiary, at McAlester, for life. A copy of the judgment and sentence has been attached to the petition showing that the warden of the penitentiary holds the petitioner by reason of the judgment and sentence of the trial court,

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which court had jurisdiction of the person and subject matter.