Walker v. State

This is a petition for post-conviction relief under the Uniform Post-Conviction Relief Act as enacted in Idaho by Sess. Laws 1967, ch. 25, and found in chapter 49, title 19, Idaho Code.

The petitioner alleges that one ground of his unlawful detention is “arrest without a warrant [on] the uncorroborated say-so of an accomplice.” The majority dismisses this allegation as a basis for post-conviction relief by stating that “Idaho has consistently held that unlawful arrest cannot be successfully raised by habeas corpus, because once the court obtained jurisdiction, it is immaterial how it was…