Zick v. Haugh

GARFIELD, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff has appealed to us from the district court’s denial of a writ of habeas corpus following trial upon his petition. We dismiss the appeal as not timely taken.

Plaintiff was a prisoner in the men’s state reformatory under a sentence following his plea of guilty to robbery. The ha-beas corpus action was based upon the claim plaintiff’s attorney in the criminal case was incompetent in advising him to plead guilty and not explaining to him he could plead not guilty and stand trial. (Plaintiff was first charged with robbery with aggravation rather than the lesser…