Gibson v. Lainson

Plaintiff was sentenced in 1926 to imprisonment for life upon conviction of tbe murder of Sheriff Codings of Union County., He appealed and the judgment was affirmed. State v. Gibson, 204 Iowa 1306, 214 N.W. 743. The present proceeding is against the warden of the penitentiary where he has since been confined. The trial court denied his petition, holding “all the matters raised * * * have been adversely decided against the plaintiff in his appeal to the Supreme Court of Iowa. The court, for the purpose of this order, is assuming the facts stated in the present petition are true; but are all…