James Vernon Vasser v. R. R. Raines, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

The question presented for decision is whether appellant’s conviction as a habitual criminal and his sentence of twenty-five years in the District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, is void because it violates the Federal Constitution.

Appellant, James Vernon Vassar, was convicted in the above entitled case on August 26, 1956, on an information charging the crime of burglary. The information included a charge, “That said defendant, heretofore, to-wit: on the 6th day of April, 1948, was convicted of the crime of Forging United States Government Obligations in the United…