Hayes v. State

Appeal from an order of the district court denying postconviction relief to defendant who, on October 2, 1962, was sentenced after a plea of guilty to an information charging him with second-degree forgery in violation of Minn. St. 1961, § 620.10. Defendant contends that at the time he entered a plea of guilty he was misled as to the precise nature of the charge against him and that he was denied effective assistance of counsel.

The information alleged that —

“* * * on the 17th day of April, in Year 1962, at said County, Howard H. Hayes then and there being, together with Eunice Pearl Kuefner,…