Ex parte Rice

Ex parte Rice
1947 OK CR 22
177 P.2d 857
83 Okl.Cr. 425
Decided: 02/26/1947
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Constitutional Law-Habeas Corpus--Held, Petitioner not Hold in Penitentiary in Violation of Terms of State Constitution and 14th Amendment to Federal Constitution.

Original proceeding for writ of habeas corpus. Original proceeding in the matter of the petition of Frank Rice for a writ of habeas corpus for release of petitioner from the State Penitentiary. Writ denied.

F. E. Riddle, of Tulsa, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Haskell A. Holloman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Dixie Gilmer, Co. Atty., and M. S. Simms, Asst. Co. Atty., both of Tulsa, for respondent.

BAREFOOT, P. J. Petitioner, Frank Rice, has filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking his release from the State Penitentiary at McAlester, where he is now confined by reason of a judgment of the district court of

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