Harris and May v. State

The appellants, Richard Harris and John May, are prisoners at the Indiana State Prison serving sentences of life imprisonment for the crime of inflicting a wound or physical injury upon a person with a deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument while engaged in the commission of a robbery. (§1, ch. 54, Acts 1929, §2425 Burns Supp. 1929.) They have served more than a year of their respective sentences.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the (separate) verified petitions of appellants to vacate the judgments against them, to withdraw their pleas of guilty and to put them upon trial in due…