Burleigh v. Turner

CALLISTER, Justice:

Appellant appeals from an order of the Fourth District Court for Utah County denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

On November 6, 1959, appellant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of issuing a fictitious check in violation of 76-26-7, U.C.A.1953. He was thereupon committed to the State Prison to serve a sentence of from one to ten years.

Some two years later, appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Third District Court for Salt Lake County (which had issued the commitment). Hearings were held and on January 30, 1962, the court denied the…