Legal Opinion · Dissent

State ex rel. Geschwender v. La Rowe

Montana Supreme Court

Decided July 8, 1959No. 9857Published

1DissentJustice Adair

In this ease Geschwender was entitled to neither a writ of review nor an appeal. His voluntary plea of guilty is a confession of guilt. It is the equivalent of a valid conviction. I *597find nothing* in our codes or statutes that empowers or authorizes the district court or the supreme court to issue a writ of review or to grant the defendant Geschwender any relief whatever herein.

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On May 13, 1957, the sheriff of McCone County, Montana, signed and filed in the justice court before Mark LaRowe, Justice of Peace for Circle Township in said county, a complaint charging that on a…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Kercheval v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  2. People v. BrownSupreme Court of Colorado · 1930
  3. State v. EckertWashington Supreme Court · 1923
  4. Cooke v. SwopeDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1939
  5. State v. SchreiberNew York Court of General Session of the Peace · 1933

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