Gaulke v. State

Peterson, Justice.

Petitioner, Leonard Gaulke, was convicted in 1953 of the rape of a young girl. The evidence, as we held upon his application for a writ of coram nobis in 1960, State ex rel. Gaulke v. County of Winona, 259 Minn. 183, 106 N. W. (2d) 560, amply sustained a jury verdict of guilt. Seven years later he petitioned for post-conviction relief, claiming a denial of various constitutional rights in the proceedings leading to his arrest and conviction.

The sole issue of substance 1 is whether the trial court, in declining to hear the case without a jury, denied petitioner a right…