Joe London v. State of Oklahoma

Petitioner, Joe London, is confined in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary where he is serving a ten year sentence upon a conviction for second degree rape. He brings this habeas corpus proceeding seeking his release, principally upon the ground that perjured testimony was knowingly used to secure his conviction. The trial court assumed that the petitioner intended that the Warden of the State Penitentiary was to be the defendant in this action and that the petitioner, for all practical purposes, had exhausted his state court remedies. We shall make the same assumption.

Relief may be had in…