Keene v. Wiman

MERRILL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Montgomery County Circuit Court denying petitioner’s application for habeas corpus after a hearing.

Petitioner was convicted of murder in the second degree and was sentenced for a term of thirty-five years in the penitentiary. His appeal to this court was dismissed, Keene v. State, 272 Ala. 596, 133 So.2d 246, and certiorari was denied by the U. S. Supreme Court, Keene v. Alabama, 369 U.S. 866, 82 S.Ct. 1032, 8 L.Ed.2d 85. This petition for writ of habeas corpus was filed August 14, 1962.

Where the court proceeding and the conviction…