Hartley v. State

TAPLEY, Justice.

On appeal. This is an appeal by the State from the findings of a single Justice on a petition for post-conviction relief filed by the petitioner, John W. Hartley. The factual aspects of the case as presented to the presiding Justice are substantially as follows : On May 12, 1961 the petitioner, upon a plea of guilty to a charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny, was sentenced to the Men’s Reformatory, which sentence was suspended and he was put upon probation for two years. This probation was revoked on February 20, 1962, whereupon the petitioner was…