Ex parte Willette

Petitioner, Charles Jay Willette, has filed in this court, under Code of 1942, Sec. 1180, a de novo petition for hail pending appeal from his conviction in December, 1952, of murder, in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Jones County. Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment, and has perfected an appeal which *787is now pending from that conviction to this Court. With the present docket this appeal on the merits will probably not be submitted until sometime in October, 1953, about eight months from the present time.

The petition avers that Willette is a man 74 years of age,…