Application of Degen

BUSSEY, Judge.

Petitioner, Russell Degen, was charged in the District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, in cases No. 18459 and No. 18527 with the crimes of Burglary in the Second Degree after former conviction of a felony, and upon his plea of guilty to each of said charges, was sentenced on June 2, 1960, in each case to serve 15 years in the State Penitentiary, said sentences to run concurrently.

On January 10, 1961, petitioner filed in this court an application for writ of habeas corpus, setting forth that had he proceeded to trial in the District Court of Tulsa County on the charges to which…