State v. Lawrence

BAKES, Justice.

On August 30, 1974, the defendant appellant Dale Eugene Lawrence pleaded guilty in the Third Judicial District Court in Canyon County to the forgery of a twenty dollar check. At that time the court accepted his plea, but postponed entering judgment and sentencing in order for the defendant to voluntarily commit himself to State Hospital North for alcohol treatment. Approximately a year later, on August 20, 1975, in the Sixth Judicial District Court in Bannock County, the defendant pleaded guilty to rape. At that time the court accepted his plea, entered judgment and sentenced…