MacKelprang v. Walker

I concur in the views expressed and the result reached in the prevailing opinion.

The salient facts, as I view them, are that the appellant, before a justice of the peace September 27, 1927, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully having intoxicating liquor in his possession. Just what judgment was rendered or sentence pronounced on the plea is not of record, except as shown by a nunc pro tunc entry made in the justice's docket, as presently indicated, more than five months after the plea. It, however, is said the justice, in the habeas corpus proceeding, testified that he, when the plea was…