Dodge v. Turner

CALLISTER, Justice:

Petitioner, Raymond Dodge, applied for a writ of habeas corpus which, after a hear*342ing, was denied by the trial court. He subsequently filed another petition with that court alleging the same grounds as had been contained in his first petition. However, he amended his second petition asserting for the first time that the application to his case of the Utah Habitual Criminal Statute denied him his constitutional right to equal protection of the law. The court below dismissed this second petition, as amended, and petitioner appeals.

The recent case of Wood v. Turner1 is…