State Ex Rel. Dillard v. Tahash

Murphy, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court discharging a writ of habeas corpus.

From the record it appears that on July 29, 1943, the relator was arraigned on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. He entered a plea of not guilty but later, accompanied by court-appointed counsel, he appeared in district court, withdrew the plea of not guilty, and entered a plea of guilty to murder in the second degree.

It appears that at the time of the offense, the relator was 20 years of age and employed as a janitor by the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company.…