State v. Brown

James Ray Brown has appealed from an order of the district court which denied his application for post conviction relief. His direct appeal, in which he raised the sole issue of sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction, is found in State v. Brown, 213 Neb. 68, 327 N.W.2d 107 (1982). He raises again as an assignment of error the sufficiency of the evidence, which we will mention only in passing. His other assignment of error relates to the claimed ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

The basis for his assertion as to counsel is that a certain witness, Kevin Dent, was not called…