McWilliams v. Gladden

On June 25,1958, Evan McWilliams entered a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Oregon State Penitentiary. On June 12, 1964, he commenced in the circuit court of Marion county proceedings under ORS 138.510-138.680, alleging that his imprisonment was illegal in that;

“A. That petitioner was denied his right to counsel under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States, *335and Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of tiie State of Oregon, in that petitioner did not voluntarily and understandingly waive his…