Palmer v. Lane

*291MEMORANDUM

GRANT, Chief Judge.

This Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was ordered filed on August 26, 1968. Petitioner alleges therein that he was sentenced in 1960 to a term of two-to-fourteen years following his plea of guilty to a sodomy charge. Excluding a brief period of probation, Palmer has been incarcerated in the Indiana State Prison since August 26, 1960. The Constitutional infirmities claimed to have infected this guilty plea are two. First, Petitioner says that at the time of his arraignment and guilty plea he was a pauper, desirous of counsel, and so informed the trial court, but…