Cole v. Fenton

This appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree in the district court for Howard county and sentenced to death, -and afterwards brought this petition in the district court for Lancaster county for a writ of habeas corpus. The application for the writ was overruled, and he has appealed to this court.

The petitioner first entered a plea of not guilty to the information against him, and after the jury had been impaneled and the trial had begun, he withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty. The information charged both himself and one G-rammer with the crime of…