Benton v. State

On October 7, 1970, Rickey Orville Benton, then retained at the Iowa State Penitentiary, filed an application for postcon-viction relief under chapter 1276, Acts of the 63rd General Assembly, Second Session. It is now chapter 663A, The Code, 1971. He moved the court to set aside his conviction and sentence on two charges of breaking and entering and one for jail breaking. On each charge he, with his court appointed attorney participating, entered a guilty plea in Warren County District Court on February 3, 1969. He was sentenced to terms not to exceed ten years on each breaking and entering…