Benson v. Gladden

SCHWAB, J. (Pro Tempore)

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing the petition of Lennart A. Benson in consolidated post-conviction and habeas corpus proceedings ① in Marion county circuit court brought to set aside two judgments of conviction of forgery in Lincoln county circuit court sentencing Benson to three years imprisonment on each of the convictions with the sentences running concurrently.

The trial on the petition was essentially on the record in the criminal proceedings in Lincoln county circuit court which was a consolidated trial under both indictments.

Benson’s petition alleges…