Wolfe v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harman, C.:

This is an appeal from an order denying post conviction relief.

Appellant Clarence Wolfe, Jr., while serving a sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, was charged with the murder of another inmate of the penitentiary. Thereafter he was convicted by a jury of the offense of murder in the first degree and sentenced March 26, 1964, to life imprisonment. Upon direct appeal to this court that conviction was affirmed (State v. Wolfe, 194 Kan. 697, 401 P. 2d 917). On October 27, 1965, appellant was denied relief by way of habeas corpus…