Burry v. Haynes

The submission herein consists of two appeals that have been argued and submitted together. One appeal challenges the court’s decision, which annulled a writ of habeas corpus that had been issued on petition of Louis Burry. The other appeal challenges a similar decision regarding a writ that had been issued on petition of Richard Dwight Ringler. Ringler’s appeal involves exactly the same question as Burry’s and an additional question. The trials were had primarily upon record evidence which was not disputed. We will review the record in Burry’s case first.

On September 12, 1938, an information…