WILLIAMS v. COX

No. 8150.

355 F.2d 667 (1965)

Jimmie Charles WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. Harold A. COX, Warden, New Mexico State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

December 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Jochems, Denver, Colo., for appellant.

L. D. Harris, Special Asst. Atty. Gen. (Boston E. Witt, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, LEWIS and HILL, Circuit Judges.


ORIE L. PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Williams was arrested in Freer, Texas, March 5, 1953, taken to Alamogordo, New Mexico, and there lodged in the County Jail of Otero County. He escaped from custody, but was later apprehended. He was charged by complaint filed in a justice of the peace court for Otero County with the murder of Mae Della Sanford in Otero County, New Mexico, on August 12, 1952.

He has filed two petitions for habeas corpus in the District Court...

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