Title: Moore v. Crouse

State: kansas

Issuer: Kansas Supreme Court

Document:

191 Kan. 323 (1963)
380 P.2d 373
PAUL MOORE, Petitioner,
v.
SHERMAN H. CROUSE, Warden, Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.
No. 43,315

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed April 6, 1963.
Petitioner was on the brief pro se.
Park McGee, assistant attorney general, argued the cause and William M. Ferguson, attorney general, was with him on the brief for the respondent.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
JACKSON, J.:
This was an original application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by the petitioner as an indigent person and inmate of the state penitentiary.
It should first be noted that in Moore v. Hand, 187 Kan. 260, 356 P.2d 809, appears another application for habeas corpus filed first with the district court of Leavenworth county, and in which petitioner raised almost the same contentions as are raised in this proceeding.
The facts of how the petitioner was sentenced to the penitentiary are found in the former case and we quote:
The petitioner again argues that he was entitled to have the three sentences with which he was charged run concurrently. We think not. And again we refer to what was said in the former opinion at page 261:
The case of Beck v. Fetters, 137 Kan. 750, 22 P.2d 479, was then cited and quoted.
It should be noted that G.S. 1949, 62-1512, refered to in the above statement, has not been repealed and is still in force.
We come to the last proposition raised by petitioner and again what this court has said in the former opinion is pertinent:
Petitioner makes the claim that his attorney was incompetent. This the record entirely fails to show.
The writ of habeas corpus is denied.