Thomas D. Mayfield v. H. C. McLeod Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary

The appellant, Thomas D. Mayfield, an inmate of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, brought this habeas corpus proceeding seeking his release on the ground that his conviction was unlawful because he had been deprived of Federal Constitutional rights. The record discloses that on two different occasions the petitioner unsuccessfully sought similar relief in the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals. See Ex parte Mayfield, Okl.Cr., 322 P.2d 1073. The petitioner did not thereafter seek review in the Supreme Court of the United States.

It has been held repeatedly that petitions for habeas corpus by…