State v. Nelson

On his pleas of guilty, February 27, 1939, of the crime of incest and the crime of carnal knowledge of a female child, defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not more than ten years on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. From the judgment entered March 2, 1939, the defendant did not appeal. On February 26, 1940, appellant filed his motion to vacate the judgment and sentences on the grounds (1) that his pleas of guilty were induced by fraud, coercion, threats, and duress, on the part of the prosecuting attorney and sheriff of Kitsap county and were…