State Ex Rel. Masters v. Tahash

Rogosheske, Justice.

Relator is imprisoned under a conviction for the crime of forgery in the second degree. He attacks the validity of the judgment of conviction upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus issued by this court.

The record discloses that the judgment resulted from a plea of guilty. The charge against relator was made by an information identical in form to one described in State v. Briton, 265 Minn. 326, 121 N. W. (2d) 577, therein held demurrable or “fatally defective.” The substance and form of the information in question alleged that petitioner on August 5, 1960, “did…