Ex Parte Cole

This is an original action in habeas corpus instituted by the petitioner, Junior Cole, in which he alleges that his imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at McAlester is illegal.

The verified petition alleges that the petitioner entered a plea of guilty on November 4, 1933, to the crime of manslaughter in the first degree in the district court of Muskogee county, and was sentenced to serve 25 years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary; that thereafter, on March 5, 1943, it being satisfactorily established that the prisoner was suffering from active tuberculosis, the Governor of the State…