State v. Cloran

The defendant, Ray Cloran, was convicted of perjury in Baker county on March 10, 1959. Thereafter, in proceedings under the habitual criminal act it was found that Cloran had been convicted of three prior felonies, and because of his status as an habitual criminal he was sentenced on the perjury charge to imprisonment for life.

Cloran appealed from his conviction, but on July 26, 1960 the appeal was dismissed for lack of prosecution.

Cloran did prosecute, in the circuit court for Marion county, a post-conviction proceeding, in which it was held that one of defendant’s three prior convictions…