WALTON v. STATE

No. 43219.

198 N.W.2d 286 (1972)

Hosie WALTON, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 2, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Earl P. Gray and Rosalie E. Wahl, Asst. Public Defenders, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, George M. Scott, County Atty., and Henry W. McCarr, Jr., and David G. Roston, Asst. County Attys., Minnneapolis, for respondent.

Heard before KNUTSON, C. J., and TODD, MacLAUGHLIN, and GUNN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant, convicted of third-degree murder and sentenced to an indeterminate term not to exceed 25 years,1 appeals from the denial of postconviction relief, claiming that he should be permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, upon which the conviction was based, because the plea was induced (1) by the existence of two illegally obtained confessions, and (2) by his counsel's unfulfilled promise of early parole.

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