Brake v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

On January 7, 1963 Sam E. Brake, now confined-in the State Penitentiary, without benefit of counsel filed in this Court an instrument labeled “Petition in Error”, indicating that he was attempting to appeal from a judgment and sentence, which he states was rendered against him in the district court of Pottawatomie County at the October, 1962 term of such court, wherein he was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary on a conviction of second degree forgery.

We have often said that this Court is very liberal in construing petitions and other instruments filed by inmates…