Price v. Turner

CROCKETT, Justice.

Roy Erwin Price, who is serving a term in the Utah State Prison, for issuing bad checks, sought release in habeas corpus proceedings in the District Court of Salt Lake County. After a hearing, the court found against him and denied his petition. He appeals.

The contention of the petitioner is that the record does not affirmatively show that when he entered his plea of guilty on October 29, 1969, in the District Court in Provo, that it was knowingly and intelligently entered, nor that he was made aware of his constitutional rights; against self-incrimination, to be. confronted…