Case Name: Ex parte SAM A. WHITE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1924-09-11
Citations: 27 Okla. Crim. 432
Docket Number: No. A-5011
Parties: Ex parte SAM A. WHITE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 432–433

Head Matter:
Ex parte SAM A. WHITE.
No. A-5011.
Opinion Filed Sept. 11, 1924.
(228 Pac. 1118.)
Crawford & Shaw, for petitioner.
The Attorney General, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is a petition for writ of habeas corpus, filed on behalf of Sam A. White, wherein it is averred that he is illegally restrained of his liberty and unlawfully imprisoned by J. IT. Townsend, warden of the penitentiary at McAlester, filed in this court on February 5, 1924, at which time a rule to show cause was duly entered and issued, returnable before Judge Harve L. Melton, district judge, at McAlester, Pittsburg county, February 11, 1924. On Feb ruary 20, 1924, he filed his report with the clerk of this court, showing that, upon a hearing had before him as said district judge, the writ was denied, and petitioner remanded to the custody of the respondent.