Benson v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge.

Tommy Lee Benson, age 16, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in the District Court of Tulsa County of the crime of Burglary in the Second Degree. The defendant, being represented by his attorney, entered a plea of guilty to the said offense and was sentenced to a term of three years imprisonment, and from said judgment and sentence, a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

The defendant contends that it is a denial of the Equal Protection of the Laws Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to prosecute…