White v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

The petitioner, Earl White, has appealed from an order of the district court of Atchison County, denying his motion made pursuant to K. S. A. 60-1507, to set aside his plea of guilty to murder in the second degree and the sentence imposed thereunder of confinement at hard labor in the Kansas State Penitentiary for the term of his natural life.

The petitioner is hereafter referred to as the defendant.

On July 10, 1966, the defendant was arrested on a warrant issued out of the City Court of Atchison, charging him with murder in the first degree…