State v. Seymour

The following appears from the application for certiorari and the Attorney General’s answer: The defendant was in- dieted in the Superior Court of Wayne County in eight cases, Nos. 7600 through 7607, each charging house breaking and larceny. At the November Session, 1963, the defendant (and a codefendant, Jarvis Bowen) through counsel, entered pleas of guilty to all charges. “The eight cases were consolidated for purposes of plea and judgment, the court (Cowper, J., presiding) imposed a single sentence of 20 years in the State’s Prison . . .”

The defendant, by writ of habeas corpus before…