Butler v. Page

BRETT, Judge:

George Butler, O.S.P. #67615, without the aid of counsel, filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus in this Court. In his petition he alleges that he was arrested in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma on October 21, 1962 on a charge of robbery with firearms; and on November 7, 1962 he entered his plea of guilty and was sentenced to serve twenty years in the State Penitentiary.

Petitioner contends that he is an “ignorant Indian with only a 5th grade education”, and that he entered his plea of guilty as the result of coercion by the county attorney, who allegedly advised him that he…