Edwards v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant’s release from prison in a habeas corpus proceeding. The: appellant is the same Charles. Edwards whose appeal from a judgment denying an application for a writ of' error coram nobis was this day affirmed by this court, in Edwards v. State, past, p. 569, 150 So.2d 710.

Appellant’s petition shows that he-was convicted of murder in the first degree in the; Circuit Court of Shelby County, and was sentenced to a term of life in the penitentiary, The answer to the petition filed by the warden of Kilby Prison asserted that the…