Lewis v. Page

This is an original proceeding in which Earnest Ray Lewis has petitioned this Court for an appeal out of time of his conviction in the District Court of Osage County, Case No. 4980, sentencing him to five years imprisonment. Petitioner alleges that he was denied his constitutional right to an appeal by the failure of counsel to perfect an appeal for him and by failure of the trial court to furnish Petitioner with a casemade at public expense.

After consideration of Petitioner’s application and response by the State this Court on July 29, 1968, ordered the District Court of Osage County, to…