Groene v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kaul, J.:

Appellant, Jerry Groene, being confined in the state penitentiary, wrote a letter to the sentencing court requesting that the sentence be vacated. The court directed the appellant’s letter be filed and considered a motion under K. S. A. 60-1507.

The appellant, referred to as defendant in the criminal proceedings, was apprehended on February 22, 1963, on suspicion of burglary and grand larceny. On March 1,1963, he was brought before a magistrate in Rush County, Kansas, without counsel. The journal entry of the proceedings before the magistrate…