John T. O. Beeler v. Sherman H. Crouse, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas

John T. O. Beeler is confined in the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Kansas, where is he serving a sentence of not less than ten years nor more than twenty-one years for first degree robbery. His petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleged that he is unlawfully held because his plea of guilty upon which he was sentenced was obtained through threats, coercion and physical abuse. This is an appeal from a judgment denying the writ and remanding the prisoner to the custody of the respondent warden.

The petitioner was present at the hearing on the petition and testified that when he was…