Surratt v. State

BUSSEY, Judge.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus by W. E. Surratt, an inmate of the State Penitentiary at McAlester, Oklahoma, requesting that he be accorded a preliminary hearing in the District Court of Garfield County, Oklahoma, or that charges there pending against him be dismissed.

In December, 1958, petitioner entered a plea of guilty to a charge of Armed Robbery and he was sentenced by the District Court of Tulsa County to serve 7 years confinement in the State Penitentiary. Thereafter the County Attorney of Garfield County, Oklahoma, filed a charge of “Robbery with Firearms”…