Title: State v. Chance
Citation: 187 Kan. 27, 353 P.2d 516
Docket Number: 41,780
State: Kansas
Issuer: Kansas Supreme Court
Date: July 2, 1960

187 Kan. 27 (1960)
353 P.2d 516
STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee,
v.
L.W. CHANCE, Appellant.
No. 41,780

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed July 2, 1960.
Appellant was on the brief pro se.
Rex Lawhorn, county attorney, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., attorney general, and J. Richard Foth and A. K. Stavely, assistant attorneys general, were with him on the brief for the appellee.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ROBB, J.:
Since approximately April 9, 1953, petitioner (appellant) has been serving a sentence in the state penitentiary for the commission of second degree forgery in violation of G.S. 1949, 21-609. The sentence was for not less than one nor more than ten *28 years. (G.S. 1949, 21-631.) On August 12, 1959, he petitioned the district court of Labette county for the issuance of writs of habeas corpus and error coram nobis. The state questioned jurisdiction of the Labette district court since petitioner was in the penitentiary at Lansing, Leavenworth county. The trial court held that it did not have jurisdiction to grant either writ and dismissed the petition. In due time petitioner properly appealed from such dismissal.
The record clearly shows that petitioner is serving a sentence in the state penitentiary at Lansing and his liberty is being restrained by the warden thereof.
Petitioner relies on Selbe v. Hudspeth, 175 Kan. 154, 259 P.2d 204, but that was an original proceeding in this court while here, as already mentioned, petitioner undertook to file his petition in the Labette district court. The rule was stated thus in Phillips v. Hand, 183 Kan. 588, 331 P.2d 291:
The above rule fully answers petitioner's first claim that the trial court erred in dismissing his petition for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus because it lacked jurisdiction and compels an affirmance of that court's judgment on this phase of the petition.
The next claim is that the trial court erred in dismissing the petition seeking a writ of error coram nobis because of lack of jurisdiction.
The case of In re Rutledge, 177 Kan. 132, 276 P.2d 314, denying a writ of coram nobis restated the appropriate rule thus:
The following conclusive statement was made in the above opinion:
See, also, Engling v. State, 178 Kan. 564, 290 P.2d 1009.
*29 The case that requires an affirmance of the trial court's order of dismissal of petitioner's second request for lack of jurisdiction is State v. Miller, 161 Kan. 210, 166 P.2d 680, certiorari denied, 329 U.S. 749, 91 L. Ed. 646, 67 S. Ct. 76, wherein the subject of a writ of error coram nobis was fully discussed and in comparing it with a writ of habeas corpus the following language was used:
Judgment affirmed.