McClure v. District Court of Fourth Judicial Dist.

This is an original proceeding by which Marvin McClure, petitioner, seeks relief from a sentence imposed by respondent district court for his conviction of the crime of forgery. We issued our rule to show cause why the relief should not be granted. The respondent has answered and the matter is now at issue. We make the rule absolute.

On March 6, 1972, McClure was convicted by a jury in the El Paso County district court of forgery in violation of C.R.S. 1963, 40-6-1. He was sentenced to serve a term of not less than eleven nor more than thirteen years in the state penitentiary. McClure has…