Legal Opinion
Coffelt v. State
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided April 18, 1968No. 9936Published
1Opinion of the Court
440 P.2d 355 (1968)
92 Idaho 235
Wesley E. COFFELT, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Idaho, Defendant-Respondent.
No. 9936.
Supreme Court of Idaho.
April 18, 1968.
Rehearing Denied May 15, 1968.
Moffatt, Thomas, Barrett & Blanton, Boise, for appellant.
Allan G. Shepard, Atty. Gen., and Roger B. Wright, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, for appellee.
SMITH, Chief Justice.
Appellant appeals from an order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Appellant was sentenced in 1961 to twenty-five years servitude in the state penitentiary following conviction of the offense of rape, allegedly committed in…
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