Wooten v. Buchanan

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

This is another one of many habeas corpus proceedings appealed to this court from the circuit courts of Oldham and Lyon counties, in each of which one.of the state’s penitentiaries is now located. The applications for the writs, including this one, are prepared and prosecuted by the petitioners in person without representation of counsel. Although this court has been more or less beseiged with such self prosecuted proceedings, it has never sustained any of them.

In this case the petitioner was indicted by the grand jury of Marion County at its April, 1944, term in which…