Christian v. Dowd, Warden

This is an appeal from the action of the LaPorte Superior Court in sustaining the appellee’s motion to quash the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

It appears from the petition that in 1935 the appellant was charged by affidavit in the Criminal Court of Lake County with robbery. He was arrested on a warrant and taken before said court for arraignment. The appellant says that when called upon to plead he stood mute and that an attorney whom he did not know or employ, and who had no authority to act for him, waived arraignment and entered a plea of guilty on his behalf. The…