Reid v. Raines

The record before us reflects defendant was confined in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on the 17th day of February, 1961, and is now restrained of his liberty by reason of a judgment and sentence made and entered on the same date, where defendant plead guilty to the crime of armed robbery, and sentenced to a term of 10 years in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Petitioner seeks by way of writ of habeas corpus his release from the penitentiary upon the sole grounds that he was insane at the time of his plea and could not have been responsible for his plea or acceptance of the judgment and…