Beavers v. Rains

Robert Dawl Beavers has filed in this court a petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking his release from confinement in the State Penitentiary at McAlester, where he was received on December 8, 1954 by reason of a judgment and sentence made and entered on April 6, 1954 in the district court of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, in case No. 5272, wherein petitioner was charged with the crime of murder, was *791tried in said cause before a jury, found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced by the court to a term of eighteen years in the penitentiary.

Petitioner appealed from said…