Burden v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fromme, J.:

The case comes to us on a Petition for Review from the Court of Appeals. That court affirmed the order of the Labette District Court denying the motion of Stephen R. Burden under K.S.A. 60-1507 to set aside a judgment and sentence entered on a plea of guilty. The motion is based on refusal of the trial court to permit defendant to withdraw his plea of guilty prior to sentencing.

The facts of the present case differ from our previous cases where the requests to withdraw the pleas of guilty were made after sentence. In the present case the…