Newton v. Key

The petitioner, Willis Newton, was convicted in the district court of Grant county of the crime of robbery with firearms and was sentenced to serve a term of 20 years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Thereafter, he took an appeal from such judgment to the Criminal Court of Appeals of this state, and on the 11th day of January, 1935, said court, by an opinion reported in Newton v. State, 50 Okla. Cr. ___, 40 P. (2d) 688, affirmed the judgment of the lower court.

Petitioner has brought this proceeding In this court for a writ of habeas corpus, asking that he be discharged from .the…