Madewell v. Page

NIX, Judge.

This is an original proceedings filed by the petitioner, Jackie E. Madewell, who seeks a writ of Habeas Corpus to dismiss another charge pending against him because of a void judgment.

Petitioner was charged with Escape from the State Reformatory at Granite, Oklahoma, in the District Court of Kiowa County, Case # 2436-C, and plead Guilty. He is presently incarcerated in the State Penitentiary at McAlester on a different charge.

This Court held in the case of Folsom v. Raines, Okl.Cr., 357 P.2d 235, that:.“Where an inmate of the penitentiary is confined on a valid judgment and…