Ex parte Kelly

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Ex parte Kelly
1947 OK CR 90
184 P.2d 253
85 Okl.Cr. 1
Decided: 08/27/1947
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Habeas Corpus-Writ Denied for Reason Petitioner Has Been Released on Execution of Bond.

Habeas corpus proceeding by Patrick J. Kelly and Charles Clifford Stanton for reduction of bail. Petition dismissed.

Herbert K. Hyde and David Tant, both of Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Warren H. Edwards, County Atty., of Oklahoma City, for respondent.

BAREFOOT, P. J. Petitioner, Patrick J. Kelly and Charles Clifford Stanton, filed their petition for habeas corpus in this court in which they alleged that they were confined in the county jail of Oklahoma county, and had been tried in the district court of Oklahoma county, and convicted of the crime of kidnapping for the purpose of extortion in case No. 18087, Oklahoma county, and that their appeal bonds had been set at $2,500 each.

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