State v. Provencher

On April 17, 1968, the respondent, represented by competent counsel, entered a plea in the Vermont District Court at Rutland to the crime of escape. He was given a sentence of not less than three nor more than five years in the House of Correction at Windsor by the presiding judge of said court. No notice of appeal was filed from this conviction by the respondent or his attorney.

The records before us, as well as the records of our own Court, establish that the respondent brought a former petition for post-conviction relief before the Rutland County Court seeking to vacate the sentence which…