Smith v. Amrine

*487The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an application for a writ of habeas' corpus by Frank Smith, a prisoner who for the past twenty-two years has been and still is serving a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of Frank Forney of Sumner county committed in 1921.

The petitioner alleges that his imprisonment is illegal on the following grounds:

1. That the journal entry of judgment sentencing and committing him to the penitentiary was not signed by the judge who presided at his trial.

2. That he had no assistance from counsel.

3. That he was continuously threatened…