STATE v. BURNETT

No. 42,385

189 Kan. 31 (1961)

367 P.2d 67

THE STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. CHARLES E. BURNETT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 9, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant was on the brief pro se.

R.K. Hollingsworth, Deputy County Attorney, of Wichita, argued the cause, and William M. Ferguson, Attorney General, and Robert E. Hoffman, Assistant Attorney General, of Topeka, and Keith Sanborn, County Attorney, of Wichita, were with him on the briefs for appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

FATZER, J.:

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of second degree burglary as defined in G.S. 1959 Supp. 21-520. Upon notice and proof of two prior convictions of felony, he was sentenced under the Habitual Criminal Act (G.S. 1949, 21-107a) to confinement in the Kansas State Penitentiary for the period of his natural life. While confined under the sentence, he appealed pro se from the jury's verdict, the...

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