Ex Parte Gault

The petitioners, Mike Gault and Allen Gault, instituted this original proceeding in habeas corpus in an effort to secure their release from confinement in the State Penitentiary.

Their petition alleges in substance that they were taken before the district court of Ouster county on July 2, 1938, and entered their pleas of guilty to the crime of burglary and were sentenced to serve seven years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. That at the same time the petitioner Mike Gault pleaded guilty to the charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and received a term of ten years…