Wright v. Bennett

— David Lee Wright was tried and convicted of the crime of larceny of a motor vehicle. On March 6, 1963, he was sentenced to be confined at Fort Madison for the term of not to exceed 10 years. The mittimus provided “that this term run concurrently with a sentence entered in the District Court of Pottawattamie County at Avoca, Iowa, on February 10, 1961 * * This sentence was also for a term of 10 years on a conviction of breaking and entering.

On January 27, 1964, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that certain of his constitutional rights under Amendments 6 and 14,…