Owens v. State

SULLIVAN, Judge.

MEMORANDUM DECISION

In October of 1967, Stephan A. Owens (Owens) was charged with theft in the Tippecanoe Superior Court. During the proceedings in that court, Owens represented his age to be nineteen years. In November of that year the trial court accepted his guilty plea and sentenced him to six months incarceration.

Fourteen years later, on March 18, 1981, Owens filed his pro se petition for post conviction relief pursuant to Ind.Rules of Procedure, Post-Conviction Rule 1. He asserted that his 1967 conviction should be set aside because at the time he was in fact seventeen…