Thacker v. Urban

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is a proceeding for post-conviction relief under our Criminal Procedure Rule No. 1. The petitioner, now the appellant, asks that his sentence be vacated and that he be set free. He was sentenced in January 1966 to a term of five years in the state penitentiary upon a plea of guilty to the alleged crime of robbery.

In February 3968 the appellant filed a writ of habeas corpus which the present trial court promptly treated as a petition for post-conviction relief. The court appointed his present counsel who filed an amended petition in appellant’s behalf. Subsequently,…