Ramsey v. Hand

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, C. J.:

This case involves the latest of a series of attempts made by Roy Ramsey in habeas corpus proceedings to obtain his release from the Kansas State Penitentiary, where he has been confined since October, 1948, under a judgment and decree of the district court of Crawford County, Kansas, sentencing him to a life term in that institution for the crime of murder in the first degree.

In explanation of our statement to the effect this is the latest of a series of attempts made by Ramsey to obtain his release from the penitentiary by habeas…