PERRY, Chief Justice.
The petitioner Irvin Russell Jones on the 19th day of September, 1941, with counsel, entered his plea of guilty to the crime of murder in the second degree, and, as was mandatory under the statute, the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Petitioner filed this post-conviction proceeding alleging, (1) that the sentencing court was without jurisdiction to accept his plea or pronounce sentence upon him, and (2) that he did not...
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