Ex Parte Smith

Petitioner, George Bullie Smith, has filed petition for habeas corpus, seeking his release from the State Penitentiary at McAlester, where he is confined by reason of a judgment and sentence entered in the district court of Kay county, Okla., on April 2,1946, where he was convicted of the crime of attempt to murder, and sentenced to serve a term of 50 years in the State Penitentiary. Copies of the information, warrant and judgment and sentence are attached to his petition.

A rule to show cause was issued, and the hearing on the petition was set for June 11, 1947. No attorney appeared at such…