Plaine v. Burford, Warden

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in the United States Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma by James J. Plaine, an inmate of the state penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma, against C. P. Burford, Warden, to obtain his discharge from further confinement in that institution. The District Court denied the application and this appeal was taken.

The decisive facts in the case are not in dispute. An information was filed in the District Court of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, which 'charged the petitioner with the crime of obtaining money by means of a bogus check.…