Lemon v. State

This is a post-conviction proceeding. The petition was filed September 20, 1971. In 1968 the defendant was convicted of the crimes of opening a parking meter with intent to steal and illegal possession of a key to a parking meter. Former ORS 164.635. He was sentenced on January 15, 1968, to a two-year term on each count to run consecutively. He appealed. No transcript of the evidence was provided on that appeal. The Supreme Court in State v. Lemon, 251 Or 606, 447 P2d 394, cert denied 393 US 1004 (1968), affirmed both the conviction and the denial of the transcript *174because defendant “refused…