BILLY
1954 OK CR 9
266 P.2d 488
Case Number: A-12018
Decided: 01/20/1954
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Emerson Billy, Sprouse Billy, per se.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., Owen J. Watts, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

JONES, Judge.

¶1 It appears from the response filed in the above entitled and numbered cause that an appeal was taken from the judgment of conviction sustained by the petitioners, which appeal was filed in this court on October 21, 1953, as Case No. A-12,004.

¶2 This habeas corpus action seeks modification of a sentence which can only be done by an appeal. The writ of habeas corpus may not be substituted for an appeal, and since an appeal is pending, presenting the identical issues sought to be presented in this habeas corpus action, it is evident that this petition must be dismissed.

¶3 It is so ordered.

POWELL, P.J., and BRETT, J., concur.

 

 

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