Dixon v. State

This cause is before us on the Public Defender’s Petition to Withdraw as pauper counsel for Phillip Dixon, Jr., in the within cause which is an appeal from an adverse judgment upon Dixon’s petition for post conviction relief.

Dixon was convicted of the offense of sodomy on March 28, 1969, and subsequently sentenced. An appeal was perfected and the conviction affirmed by our Supreme Court. (See Dixon v. State (1971), 256 Ind. 266, 268 N. E. 2d 84.) Dixon’s petition for post conviction relief, having previously been denied pending appeal, was reinstated, and the cause was heard with Dixon being…