State v. Trinkle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

The defendant, Rilly Merle Trinkle, was duly convicted of the offense of forcible rape (G. S. 1949, 21-424) in the district court of Linn County, and pursuant thereto was sentenced to the state penitentiary under the provisions of that statute.

He subsequently filed in this court an original proceeding in habeas corpus in which he charged, in substance, that his imprisonment was illegel because the district court, under the provisions of what now appears as G. S. 1959 Supp. 62-1304, denied him a transcript of the record necessary and required…