State Ex Rel. Kons v. Tahash

Otis, Justice.

These habeas corpus proceedings seek to review a conviction for murder in the second degree based on an arraignment and plea of guilty entered on January 13, 1941, which resulted in a life sentence. The issues are: (1) Whether the court’s failure to interrogate relator with respect to the facts of the crime requires a remand and rearraignment; (2) whether the proceedings were fatally defective because the plea of guilty was entered by counsel and not by relator; and (3) whether or not defendant was deprived of his constitutional right to counsel by the brevity of his…