In Re Gossett v. Smith

This is an appeal from an order denying an application for a writ of habeas corpus.

On June 2, 1941, the petitioner pleaded guilty, in the superior court of Whatcom county, to an information charging him with having committed murder in the second degree. Thereupon, the court, acting through the Honorable Hobart S. Dawson, a judge thereof, entered a judgment and sentence adjudging appellant to be guilty of the offense charged and imposing a sentence of imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla “for a period of not less than ten years nor more than twenty-five years.”

On September 13,…