Legal Opinion
Ex parte Stonefield
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided January 16, 1941No. 192PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, District Judge.
The petitioner Roy Stonefield has applied for a writ of habeas corpus and that cause be shown why he should not be released from confinement in the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddyville, Kentucky, to which institution he was committed following a judgment of the Campbell Circuit Court of Kentucky.
The petitioner was arrested and placed in the county jail on December 18, 1937, for violation of Sections 1159 and 1159a of the Kentucky Statutes dealing with armed robbery. He was indicted by the Grand Jury of the county on February 17, 1938. He was arraigned and pleaded…
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