Rocker v. State

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

Robert L. Rocker, the appellant, was convicted after trial by a jury of one charge of burglary in the fourth degree, and in a separate trial by the court, without a jury, of two similar charges and of a charge of breaking and entering. Rocker filed motions for new trials or, in the alternative, for acquittal upon all of the charges. Those motions were denied. At this time Rocker had not as yet been sentenced.

Rocker thereupon filed in the Superior Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging a violation of his constitutional rights. The court ruled that his…