DARLING v. HOFFMAN

No. 40,274

180 Kan. 137 (1956)

299 P.2d 594

JOHN W. DARLING, Petitioner, v. ARTHUR HOFFMAN, Warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed June 30, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Darling, pro se.

Robert J. Roth, assistant attorney general, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., attorney general, was with him on the brief for the respondent.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PARKER, J.:

The petitioner is confined in the state penitentiary under a judgment and sentence of the district court of Johnson County for the crime of second degree burglary. His conviction, sentence and incarceration followed proceedings in such court where, represented by his own attorney, he induced the state to dismiss a second count of burglary and then pleaded guilty to the first count of burglary charged in...

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