Ex Parte Webbe

This is an original proceeding by habeas corpus. Petitioner, August Webbe, on April 7, 1924, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis entered a plea of guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to imprisonment in the Missouri State Penitentiary for a term of ten years. On the same day he also entered a plea of guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree in the Circuit Court of the County of St. Louis and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years, this sentence to ran concurrently with the sentence rendered in the Circuit…