Alfred G. Jones v. Sherman H. Crouse, or His Successor, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas

KERR, District Judge.

Appellant, Jones, was charged, tried and found guilty by a jury in the Sed-wick District Court of Kansas, on January 16, 1967, of eight separate crimes, including murder in the first degree and armed robbery. The Supreme Court of Kansas reviewed the case on direct appeal and upheld the conviction. State v. Jones, 202 Kan. 31, 446 P.2d 851 (1968). The Supreme Court subsequently denied relief to Appellant on his appeal under K.S.A. 60-1507 collaterally attacking the judgment. Jones v. Kansas, 204 Kan. 839, 466 P.2d 353 (1970). Appellant, having exhausted his state remedies,…