State Ex Rel. Baker v. Jameson

This appeal, in a habeas corpus proceeding from an order of the circuit court remanding appellant to the custody of the warden of the penitentiary of South Dakota, presents the question whether the trial of appellant on a charge of manslaughter in the first degree was so infected with unfairness as to impel a holding that the judgment of conviction upon a plea of guilty is void under the due process provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and § 2, Article VI of the Constitution of South Dakota.

Prior to the 31st day of August 1943, one William Sturges,…