Bement v. State

McQUADE, Justice.

John Henry Bement, appellant, was eighteen years old at all pertinent times related herein. Pie had completed the ninth grade but failed in two attempts to graduate from the tenth. His classwork in the first nine grades had been poor, with failure of a number of courses. He admitted to being “a little slow in catching onto the subjects,” and his maternal grandmother, who acted as his foster parent, testified that he was “awful slow” in school, and his intelligence was below average. In the summertime, he dug basements. After the habeas corpus hearing below, the trial court…