State Ex Rel. Oney v. Tahash

Peterson, Justice.

Relator was charged by information with felony theft for the intentional issuance of three false checks within a 6-month period, the aggregate value of which exceeded $100. Upon his plea of guilty, he was convicted and sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary for an indeterminate term according to law.

Two grounds are asserted by relator in habeas corpus attack upon the judgment of conviction — (1) that his plea of guilty was improperly accepted by the trial court, particularly in view of his evasive and equivocal acknowledgment of the issuance of one of the three…