Langdeau v. State

MEMORANDUM OPINION.

On January 4, 1965, petitioner entered a plea of guilty in the Circuit Court of Hughes County, South Dakota, to the crime of Indecent Molestation of a child and was sentenced to serve a term of years in the State Penitentiary less time spent in the Hughes County jail. After a hearing post-conviction relief was denied on July 12, 1969 and this appeal followed.

Contrary to petitioner’s contention this court in the recent case of Nachtigall v. Erickson, as Warden of the State Penitentiary, 85 S.D. 122, 178 N.W.2d 198, determined that Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct.…