440 P.2d 991 | Okla. Crim. App. | 1968
Mack Hawkins was convicted in the district court of Tillman County, Oklahoma, on December 7, 1962 on a charge of murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment, case No. 2517. Thereafter, on the same day, December 7, 1962, in case No. 2520, defendant was sentenced in the same court to serve twenty years on a plea of guilty to a charge of first degree robbery with firearms, such sentence not to commence until defendant had served and satisfied the judgment and sentence of life imprisonment.
Defendant grounds his application for writ of habeas corpus in this case, where he complains of the judgment and sentence in case No. 2520, on three propositions: (1) that his plea of guilty was obtained by duress and coercion; (2) that he was denied right of counsel; and (3) that he was not indicted by a grand jury.
Petitioner alleges that after he had been sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case, No. 2517, and his attorney had
The Court finds that the exhibits attached to the petition filed by this petitioner negate the first two propositions alleged, in that they show that petitioner was represented by counsel at the time he entered his plea and was sentenced, and that he affirmatively waived any right to withdraw his plea after sentence was pronounced.
In Oklahoma where an information is duly filed against a defendant, it is not necessary that he be proceeded against by indictment of a grand jury.
This petitioner files his petition without aid of counsel, and while he calls the same a “Writ of Habeas Corpus”, his prayer is that the Court issue an order vacating the judgment and sentence issued by the district court of Tillman County in case No. 2520, and order said court to grant appellant a jury trial.
After due consideration, the Court is of the opinion that none of petitioner’s rights were violated, and petitioner is not entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, or to a post conviction appeal.
Writ denied.