Beard v. Maynard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an appeal by the petitioner-appellant, Jim Beard, from a judgment of the district court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to K.S.A. 60-1501. The essential facts in this case are not in dispute and are as follows: Petitioner, Jim Beard, is an inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Kansas. The defendant, Raymond Maynard, is the director of the Kansas State Penitentiary. On October 8, 1963, Beard was convicted in the courts of Alabama of the offense of burglary in two cases. He received…