Application of Hayes

The petitioner, Lorenzo Alfonso Hayes, is confined in the county jail of Tulsa County, and on August 8, 1956 filed in this court his petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he is unlawfully held and illegally restrained of his liberty by the sheriff of Tulsa County.

Counsel sets out that petitioner was tried on a charge of murder in the district court of Tulsa County, found guilty by the jury and was sentenced to life imprisonment, but that on appeal to this court his conviction was reversed and his case remanded for a new trial, the mandate from this court being spread of record in…