Mazakahomni v. State

Joseph Mazakahomni has petitioned this court for an appropriate writ in the nature of habeas corpus. He seeks his release from the State Penitentiary to which he was committed to serve a life sentence for first degree murder pronounced by Pión. O. W. Buttz, Judge of the District Court of Ramsey County, North Dakota, on November 25, 1936. The petitioner attacks the validity of the judgment upon which his sentence is based as being rendered in violation of his constitutional rights. He sets forth four grounds substantially as follows :

1. That he was not accorded the right to assistance of…