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THACKER v. URBAN

No. 5402.

440 S.W.2d 553 (1969)

Thomas E. THACKER, Appellant, v. Victor URBAN, Superintendent, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 12, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. C. Lewis, Jr., Hot Springs, for appellant.

Joe Purcell, Atty. Gen., Don Langston, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

HOLT, Justice.

This is a proceeding for post-conviction relief under our Criminal Procedure Rule No. 1. The petitioner, now the appellant, asks that his sentence be vacated and that he be set free. He was sentenced in January 1966 to a term of five years in the state penitentiary upon a plea of guilty to the alleged crime of robbery.

In February 1968 the appellant filed a writ of habeas corpus which the present...

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