Plasters v. Hoffman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner, who is now an inmate of the state penitentiary because of a judgment rendered by the district court of Wilson County on March 23, 1942, sentencing him to life confinement in that institution under the habitual criminal statute (G. S. 1941 Supp., 21-107a) on his plea of guilty of the crime (G. S. 1935, 21-431) of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill one C. O. Vice, seeks his release from confinement under such sentence on grounds hereinafter related.

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