Maxwell v. Turner

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Dennis Maxwell pled guilty to a charge of second-degree burglary in February of 1962 for which he is serving a sentence of one to 20 years in the Utah State Prison. In March, 1967, he filed this petition for release under habeas corpus. The proposition he essays is that' his waiver of his right to counsel and his plea of guilty were both involuntary because they were induced by a promise of probation which was not kept. After a plenary hearing in this habeas corpus proceeding, the District Court found the issues against him and denied his petition, from which he…