Application of Mitchell

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge:

By writ of habeas corpus the petitioner, Paul Mitchell, seeks release from confinement in the State Penitentiary, where he is held by reason of a judgment and sentence of the district court of Murray County wherein the petitioner was sentenced to a term of ten years upon his plea of guilty to the crime of larceny of cattle, after former conviction • of a felony.

In support of his unverified petition it is alleged that petitioner was taken before the sentencing judge “in chains, handcuffs and shackles and was not even permitted to wear his shoes, and was ridiculed and…