Chambers v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Samuel Lee Chambers, from an order overruling his motion to vacate a sentence imposed against him for robbery in the first degree.

Most of the relevant facts are undisputed. On April 23, 1962, the district court of Johnson County appointed Mr. Richard L. Roberts, of Olathe, Kansas, to represent the plaintiff and his co-defendant, Raymond Clayton Wilson. Two days later Chambers and Wilson appeared in court with their appointed counsel, where formal arraignment was waived and pleas of guilty were entered.…