Gault v. Burford

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

After exhausting their state remedy by petitioning the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals <for a writ of habeas corpus, and the Supreme Court of the United States for a review of the State Court’s denial of the writ, Ex parte Gault, Okl.Cr.App., 146 P.2d 133, certiorari denied 325 U.S. 873, 65 S.Ct. 1414, 89 L.Ed. 1991, petitioners applied for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, seeking release from custody of the Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The trial court granted the writ, conducted a hearing,…