Shane v. McLeod

POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Billy Dee Shane seeks release from the State Penitentiary at McAlester. He was sentenced on a plea of guilty for second degree burglary, conjoint, after former conviction of a felony in the district court of Tulsa County on May 8, 1957, to serve a term of ten years imprisonment. The term has not yet expired.

Petitioner for grounds of release alleges (1) that he was put in mental fear by both the prosecuting attorney and his court-appointed attorney by threats that if petitioner did not plead guilty and take the ten year sentence he would be given a longer sentence; (2)…