McCall v. State

Brailsfobd, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding petitioner to custody. The petition for the writ challenged the validity of a sentence to imprisonment for five years, imposed upon petitioner in June, 1962, in Greenwood County. According to its terms, this sentence was to be served consecutively to a life sentence which had been imposed upon petitioner in February, 1962, in Abbeville County.

The circuit court held on conflicting evidence that petitioner had effectively waived representation by counsel when he entered a…