Weathers v. Hand

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jackson, J:

The appellant is an inmate of the state penitentiary at Lansing. He is confined under a sentence of the Shawnee district court for robbery in the first degree as defined in section 21-527, G. S. 1949. Appellant entered his plea of guilty to an information charging that appellant held up a Kroger grocery store in Topeka with a pistol and obtained the sum of $3,197 from one Jerry McGuire.

On July 16, 1959, appellant filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court of Leavenworth county alleging that his confinement was…