STATE EX REL. BASSETT v. TAHASH

No. 38,762.

263 Minn. 447 (1962)

116 N.W. (2d) 564

STATE EX REL. JOE RICHARD BASSETT v. RALPH H. TAHASH.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 17, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Richard Bassett, pro se, for appellant.

Walter F. Mondale, Attorney General, and Charles E. Houston, Solicitor General, for respondent, warden of the State Prison.


MURPHY, JUSTICE.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying a writ of habeas corpus.

On April 21, 1954, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of robbery in the first degree, which offense is punishable under Minn. St. 619.42 by imprisonment of not less than 5 nor more than 40 years. On April 22, 1954, the defendant was sentenced "to the State Prison at Stillwater, Minnesota, at hard labor until released by competent authority...

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