Sandsbury Lee v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida

This appeal is from a judgment denying appellant’s petition for writ of habe-as corpus attacking his Florida state court conviction. The present action followed a series of post-conviction proceedings in the Florida courts.

The felony conviction under attack was had in 1957. While the State of Florida could have sought enhancement of his punishment as a several time felony offender under its multiple offender statute (F.S.A. #775.09), it followed the more lenient course of proceeding against him in the sentence hearing only as a second offender, and he was sentenced as such. His conviction was…