Burks v. State

Carleton Harris, -Chief Justice.

Robert Lee Burks, an inmate at the State Penitentiary, filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus1 on December 29, 1965, in the Desha County Circuit Court, setting out that on or about April 21, 1958, after entering a plea of guilty, he was sentenced to serve a term of three years in the penitentiary by the Desha County Circuit Court on a charge of grand larceny. The record reflects that this three years was to run consecutively to a term of fifteen years, which Burks was already serving, following a conviction in the Lincoln County Circuit Court in…