Clay Sims v. R. W. Alvis, Warden, Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus

This appeal is from an order of the district court denying application for writ of habeas corpus for release of the petitioner from the Ohio State Penitentiary. Appellant was committed to this penal institution in 1931 by judgment of a Common Pleas Court of Ohio, of appropriate jurisdiction, wherein he was sentenced to life imprisonment on a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree.

At a hearing in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the appellant was afforded adequate opportunity to sustain the charges of his petition; but he…