Lyda v. State

BRETT, Judge.

Louis David Lyda, O. S. P. # 7394S, has filed an application for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he is presently confined in the State Penitentiary at McAl-ester by reason of a judgment and sentence rendered against him by the district court of Pontotoc County, on a charge of child abandonment, whereby petitioner was sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary. It was alleged that petitioner aban*348doned his six children, all under the age of 18 years.

As grounds for the issuance of the writ, petitioner alleges that the judgment and sentence rendered June 7, 1963 was…