State v. Lewis

At his trial at October 1967 Criminal Session, defendant contended, as he had contended at a habeas corpus hearing before Judge Cowper on February 13, 1967, that he was not Jessie B. Lewis.

At August 1955 Term, Jessie B. Lewis had pleaded nolo contendere to the indictment. Judgment imposing a prison sentence of ten years was pronounced. He escaped. Defendant was brought or returned to prison in North Carolina in 1965. On January 12, 1967, under the name, “Harold B. Richardson, M.D.,” defendant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. At the habeas corpus hearing, defendant did not attack…