Legal Opinion
Hays v. Murphy
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1981No. 81-2064PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.
This habeas action was begun in the District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma by Mrs. Leo H. Hays as natural mother and next friend of Thomas Lee Hays, a prisoner at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Mrs. Hays alleges that her son is incompetent and thus incapable of maintaining the proceedings himself or of protecting his own federal constitutional rights not to be subjected to an illegal sentence of death. Mrs. Hays attacks the validity-of the conviction and death sentence imposed on her son on a charge of first degree murder by the District Court of…
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