Hooper v. State

PIERCE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Ronald David Hooper, defendant below, from an order entered by the lower Court on July 28, 1969, denying his application for post-conviction relief.

The history of the litigation is not particularly salutary but it is interesting as pointing up a classic factual situation as to which the post-conviction Rule was never intended to be utilized. On March 19, 1969, information was filed in the Highlands County Circuit Court charging Hooper with the second degree murder of one William Morrison by hitting him with “a piece of pipe”. On April 14, 1969, after due…