Church v. Gladden

Petitioner, an inmate of the state penitentiary, appealed from an order of the trial court quashing his petition for post-conviction relief. The defendant’s motion to quash was based on the contention that petitioner had previously prosecuted another petition for post-conviction relief in which he either raised, or should have raised, all of his present adequately-stated grounds for relief.

Petitioner was indicted for first-degree felony murder on April 18,1961, and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, receiving a sentence of life imprisonment. The four grounds asserted in his petition and…