State v. Morse

Although parts of this appeal come to this Court by separate procedures, separately docketed, all of the questions raised are challenges to the validity of the petitioner’s confinement at the state prison at Windsor, by sentence of the Barre municipal court. Arising, as they do, out of a single set of prosecutions, it is possible and appropriate to dispose of the issues raised in this one opinion.

The petitioner elected to present and argue his own case before this Court. He had had counsel below, whom he had discharged. He is the same party who represented himself in Morse v. Morse, 126 Vt.…