MEMO OPINION
This is an original proceeding to obtain a writ of review *461 to'set aside a previous conviction and to decrease a sentence receivеd ;upon. a subsequent conviction under section .94-4713, R.C.M.1947.
■Petitioner, Clyde Kent Lewis, is an inmate at the Montanа State Prison. On June 3, 1965, in Cascade County, Great Falls, Montana, petitioner was convicted of the сrime of uttering and- delivering a fraudulent check together with a prior felony conviction and was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor in the state prison. The prior felony conviction was received for the crime of obtaining money and property by false pretenses in Fergus County, Lewistown, Mоntana, on October 27, 1959.
On July 1, 1969, petitioner filed a petition for Writ of Review in the district court of Cascаde County which was denied by that court. On July 22, 1969, petitioner, by counsel, appeared before this Court ex parte seeking an appropriate writ. On that day this Court issued a show cause order to the аttorney general and the warden of the state prison to appear on August 6, 1969, to show causе why relief requested by the petitioner should not be granted. On August 6, 1969, petitioner, by counsel, and the attorney general appeared and oral argument was heard by this Court.
Petitioner’s primary contention is that his constitutional rights to due process were violated in the earlier felony conviction in Fеrgus County and therefore he should not have been charged with a prior felony conviction, activating the Montana recidivist statute. Under section 94-2702, R.C.M.1947, the maximum. sentence is 5 years in prison for the crime of uttering a fraudulent check. However, under section 94-4713, R.C.M.1947, the maximum sentence is 10 years where there has been a prior felony conviction.
. Petitioner’s complaint is based upon his arraignment in Fergus County in 1959 on the prior felony. He asserts, and the minute records of the district court agree, he was nоt told that if he could not afford counsel then the State would pro *462 vide him with one. The minute entry merely stаtes: “The court informed the defendant of his statutory rights as to counsel, and the defendant waives an аttorney.”
The question then becomes whether the court récord must affirmatively • show that a defendant in аn arraignment proceedings must be informed not only that he has the right to counsel, but also that the court will furnish one if he cannot afford counsel.
This Court has followed as controlling precedent' the' rulings оf the United States Supreme Court concerning the procedural rights guaranteed to an acсused in a criminal prosecution. See Gideon v. Wainwright,
We discussed the same question posed herе in State ex rel. Biebinger v. Ellsworth,
“It is the duty of the district court to inform the defendant not only that he has a right to сounsel, but that if he is without means to employ counsel that counsel would be provided for him by the State without cost to him.”
Also, in the Biebinger case we quoted with approval from the Cochran casе, supra, which in effect said the record must affirmatively show that the accused, at an arraignment, was informed not only of his right to counsel but also that the court would appoint one for him if he could not afford one.
From the foregoing it is evident the Fergus County district court record does not affirmatively shоw that petitioner was informed of his rights and that he knowingly waived them. Therefore the conviction from Fergus County is set aside as null and void. ' '
This then raises a second question. If a prior felony conviction is null and void, does a subsequent conviction'and 'enhanced sentence under the Montana recidivist statutе become null and void?
*463 The subsequent conviction here involved was received by the petitionеr in Great Falls, Montana; petitioner does not now contend that procedural safeguards were not followed in that proceeding but rather he contends that the prior felony shouhl not have been applied which enhanced -his - sentence.- - ■
Petitioner relies on several United States Supreme Court decisions in his argument. However, for the sake of brevity this Court need only cite one dеcision—Burgett v. Texas,
“In this ease the certified records of the Tennessee' conviction on thеir face raise , a presumption that petitioner was denied'his right to counsel in the Tennesseе proceeding, and therefore that his conviction was void. Presuming waiver of counsel from a silеnt record is impermissible. Carnley v. Cochran,369 U.S. 506 ,82 S.Ct. 884 ,8 L.Ed.2d 70 . To permit a conviction obtained in violation of Gideon v. AVain wright to be usеd against a person either to support guilt or enhance punishment-for another offense (see Greer v. Beto,384 U.S. 269 ,86 S.Ct. 1477 ,16 L.Ed.2d 526 ) is to erode the principle of that case.” (Emphasis supplied).
This; Court can only conclude from the-record that the Fergus County conviction was оbtained in violation of the Gideon, v. Wainwright case; therefore the enhanced sentence; оf 5 years -received in Cascade County under section 94-4713, R.C.M.1947; is null and; void and must be set aside.- However, the сonviction.for uttering and delivering a fraudulent cheek under section 94-2702, R.C.M.1947, and sentence of 5 years will stand affirmed.