Ex parte Feagins

Ex parte Feagins
1939 OK CR 145
99 P.2d 526
68 Okl.Cr. 96
Decided: 11/04/1939
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Proceeding in the matter of the petition of Fred C. Feagins for habeas corpus to release John Charles Feagins from the custody of the Warden of the State Reformatory at Granite, Okla. Writ of habeas corpus issued.

Fred C. Feagins, in pro. per.

Clay M. Roper, of Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

DOYLE, P. J. Now, on this the 4th day of November, 1939, this matter comes on for hearing upon the verified petition of the petitioner, for a release from the respondent, Fred Hunt, warden of the state reformatory, at Granite, Okla., John Charles Feagins.

The petitioner appeared in person and by his attorney of record, Clay M. Roper, and the respondent appeared by Sam H. Lattimore, Assistant Attorney General, said matter coming on for hearing by agreement of all parties, said case being a companion case of In re Walter Lee Midkiff, 68 Okla. Cr. 59, 99 P.2d 525, and it being agreed that the evidence and pleadings in said companion case together with the exhibits attached to petitioner's petition, to be considered as evidence in this case, and the court being fully advised in the premises, finds that said petition should be granted, and the writ of habeas corpus issued. The court further finds that the father, Fred C. Feagins, is a fit and proper person to whom the said child should be delivered.

It is therefore by the court considered, ordered, and adjudged: That the writ of habeas corpus as prayed for issue, and that the warden of the state penitentiary at

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Granite, Okla., Fred Hunt, be and hereby is commanded forthwith to deliver into the custody of Fred C. Feagins the said John Charles Feagins.