John Taylor Queen v. Ray H. Page, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary

This is an appeal from the denial of habeas corpus relief to appellant, a prisoner in the Oklahoma penitentiary. On April 6, 1964, the prisoner was sentenced to a five-year term on his plea of guilty to second degree rape. His application to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for habeas corpus was denied. Queen v. State (Okl.Cr.) 395 P.2d 343. He then sought the same relief from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. That court appointed an attorney for him and conducted an evidentiary hearing at which full opportunity was afforded to the defendant for the…