State Ex Rel. Bennett v. Rigg

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying relator’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Relator contends that a judgment of conviction and sentence by the District Court of Kanabec County on January 16, 1956, constituted a denial of his constitutional rights to due process and equal protection of law in that he was first sentenced to a term of from 2 to 10 years imprisonment and subsequently, without such judgment or sentence being vacated, sentenced to a term of from 2 years to life imprisonment for the same offenses.

Relator was indicted in Kanabec County for the offense of…