Coppage v. Hand

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Jackson, J.:

This is an original petition for habeas corpus. The petition prepared by petitioner, an inmate of the penitentiary at Lansing, is not a work of legal art. Under the circumstances, we have given the petition the most liberal construction possible, but must say at the outset that we fail to find any ground for the allowance of the writ.

Petitioner was arraigned on October 2,1943, and charged with the crime of grand larceny in the Sedgwick county district court. When it appeared petitioner had no counsel, the judge promptly appointed a…