Brewer v. Amrine

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus by one who has for the last fourteen years been serving a term of life imprisonment for murder in the first degree.

On February 14, 1942, this court made an order and handed down ' an opinion in which it held that certain grounds relied upon for the petitioner did not entitle him to a writ of habeas corpus. In this order, however, the court pointed out that the petitioner had alleged that he was without the assistance of counsel for his defense at the time he pleaded guilty, and that he did…