Arley Ward v. Ray H. Page, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary

SETH, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, petitioner below, was charged in 1947 by the State of Oklahoma with murder. During the course of his trial in the District Court of Tulsa County, the record shows that he changed his plea from not guilty to guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. Appellant was then sentenced to a term of forty years. An appeal was taken from a denial of his motion to vacate the sentence, which afforded him no relief. Ward v. State, 90 Okl.Cr. 120, 210 P.2d 790 (1949). Appellant also filed in 1949 a habeas corpus petition which was denied without opinion by the Oklahoma…