Levier v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harman, C.:

These appeals are from orders summarily denying inmates of the state penitentiary an evidentiary hearing or any relief on alleged grievances arising out of their imprisonment.

The two actions were dealt with separately in the trial court and on appeal were docketed separately in this court. However, we deem it appropriate to consolidate the two actions for the purpose of this opinion inasmuch as the facts in each case are so similar as to raise the same issues of law, the adverse parties are each represented by the same counsel and the…