Bates v. Tinsley

Bates was convicted in February of 1959 of the crime of receiving stolen goods and was sentenced to a term of one and one-half years in the state penitentiary. No motion for a new trial was made and no writ of error was sued out relative to that conviction. On October TO, 1959, Bates filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court of Ouray County, which was denied by that court on October 23, 1959. A motion for rehearing was filed and denied on December 10, 1959.

The issue presented is the propriety of the action of the trial court in refusing to grant the writ of habeas…