State v. Domingus

This is an appeal from an order of the district court for Lincoln County denying defendant’s motion for postconviction relief. Defendant, Alex Paul Domingus, has timely appealed to this court, assigning as error the district court’s failure to find defendant’s plea of no contest was not voluntary because it was entered without effective assistance of counsel.

The record shows that following a preliminary hearing, defendant was arraigned in the district court for Lincoln County on the charges of first degree murder in the May 2, 1986, killing of Ruth Anderson Keeney, use of a deadly weapon in…