Berkihiser v. State

Floyd E. Berkihiser filed his petition for habeas corpus alleging that he had been illegally restrained without trial in the county jail of Washington county for 14 months. A response was, filed on behalf of the sheriff in which it was alleged that the defendant had been incarcerated a part of said time in the Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane at the request of defendant’s mother and his two attorneys, and that he had not been tried at the July, 1948, term of court because his counsel was not ready for trial and specifically requested tbe court not to assign said case for trial. A…