Jones v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:

Louis Jones, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, entered a plea of guilty in the District Court of Kay County, Oklahoma, in 1945 to the offense of Rape in the First Degree; his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment, and from a denial of post-conviction relief in the District Court of Kay County, a timely appeal from said denial has been perfected to this Court.

At the post-conviction hearing, the petitioner, who was represented by counsel, asserted that the judgment and sentence should be declared illegal, null and void for the reason that the plea of guilty was…