Syddall v. Turner

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff Syddall petitioned in habeas corpus to have declared void a judgment and sentence imposed upon him 11 years earlier, in 195S, for the crime of second degree burglary to which he had pleaded guilty. In the meantime he had been released, and had committed another burglary, of which he was convicted and is serving another sentence of from one to 20 years.1

In this attack upon the 195S conviction plaintiff contends that he was then a minor, 17 years of age; that he was unlawfully arrested and held prior to the filing of a complaint and the issuance of a warrant;…