Ex Parte Sisson

This habeas corpus action is brought for the purpose of attempting to secure the petitioner’s release from confinement in the State Penitentiary. The amended petition alleges that the petitioner was charged by a criminal complaint filed before the connty judge of Payne connty sitting as a committing magistrate with the crime of rape in the first degree allegedly committed on October 10, 1939; that on November 2, 1939, the petitioner entered his plea of guilty to said charge and was sentenced by the district court of Payne connty to serve a term of life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary;…