Littlefield v. State

WERNICK, Justice.

A single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court acting in the Superior Court (York County) denied Theodore Littlefield’s petition, filed pursuant to 14 M.R.S.A. §§ 5502 et seq., seeking post-conviction relief by “habeas corpus” from a judgment of conviction of manslaughter that had been entered upon petitioner’s plea of guilty to that crime.

We have before us petitioner’s appeal from the judgment entered on the decision of the single justice. We deny the appeal and affirm the judgment.

Petitioner claimed post-conviction relief by “habeas corpus” primarily on the ground that…