eBook details
- Title: Application of Fowler
- Author : Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
- Release Date : January 07, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
Description
1 This is an original action for writ of habeas corpus brought by E.L. (Lefty) Fowler seeking release from the penitentiary from a life sentence for the murder of Helen Beavers. The murder was committed in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma, on January 23, 1948. Helen Beavers body, badly beaten, was found in the turtle back of an automobile belonging to a party not connected with the crime. The body having been placed there by the petitioner. Lefty Fowler, at the time of the murder was a Duncan policeman. He confessed the crime, was tried and convicted by a jury in Stephens County and sentenced to life imprisonment. It appears from the record before us that this murder was needless and brutal and that defendants guilt was established contrary to due process and that the entire proceedings is void.