PEDICORD v. SWENSON

No. 1405.

304 F.Supp. 393 (1969)

David Crockett PEDICORD, Petitioner, v. Harold R. SWENSON, Warden, Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, C. D.

October 6, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., for petitioner.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Gene E. Voigts, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING HABEAS CORPUS

JOHN W. OLIVER, District Judge.

I.

This habeas corpus case involves a state prisoner who is serving a mandatory life sentence in the Missouri penitentiary imposed in 1952 on a plea of guilty tendered after a five or ten minute consultation with appointed counsel. The Supreme Court of Missouri affirmed the trial court's denial of petitioner's Missouri Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R. postconviction motion...

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