Bruno v. Cook

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.

Anthony J. Bruno, appellant, filed in the Circuit Court of Benton County a petition for release on a writ of habeas corpus, against Thomas D. Cook, Superintendent of the State Penitentiary. On a charge of burglary, Bruno earlier had been sentenced to the penitentiary after he had entered a plea of nolo contendere. The circuit court denied the petition. We hold that, although the plea of nolo contendere is not available in this jurisdiction where defendant is charged with a felony, Bruno waived any objections to its use in his case, when he knowingly and intelligently…