In re Jones

Fay Jones, now confined in the State Penitentiary by reason of conviction in the district court of Tillman County on a charge of murder, and where he was sentenced to imprisonment for life, now seeks his release by way of writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner duly appealed from the verdict and judgment in question to this Court and his sentence for murder was reduced to the included offense of manslaughter in the first degree with the punishment reduced from life to thirty years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. See Jones v. State, 1951, 94 Okl.Cr. 359, 236 P.2d 102.

Petitioner now alleges…