Troy M. Stinson v. John W. Turner, Warden, Utah State Prison

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal follows the denial of federal habeas relief in the District of Utah. Appellant Stinson seeks to set aside a conviction for grand larceny in the Utah State courts primarily on the ground that the record fails to show that his guilty plea was intelligently and voluntarily made.

Relying principally on Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L. Ed.2d 274, he argues that the State Court arraignment record reveals an invalid plea in that (1) the record fails to show affirmatively that appellant intelligently and voluntarily waived his constitutional…