Balasco v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant’s prayer for “discharge . . . from further restraints and charges,” contained in appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant-petitioner, pro se, filed the ten-paragraph petition on August 17, 1973, to which the State filed an answer on August 22. On September 5, a hearing on the petition and answer was conducted, the court rendered judgment and petitioner gave notice of appeal. Petitioner was represented at the hearing by court-appointed counsel, the same counsel who had previously…