Manley v. Raines

POWELL, Presiding Judge.

Willard J. Manley seeks his release from the State Penitentiary at McAlester by way of writ of habeas corpus. In his petition, filed pro se, he states that he is confined by reason of a conviction in the district court of Muskogee County on a charge of assault with intent to kill, for which he was assessed a penalty of five years confinement in the state penitentiary.

Petitioner alleges as grounds for release that his court-appointed counsel, Cecil E. Robertson, had been for many years counsel for petitioner’s mother-in-law; that it was the wife of petitioner that he…