OPINION
McCANLESS, Justice.
On August 19, 1970, William T. Arthur filed his handwritten petition for postconviction relief by which he sought to have set aside his conviction in February, 1967, on a charge of armed robbery. The court dismissed the petition without appointing counsel and without an evidentiary hearing, expressing the opinion that the petitioner was making "an attempt to substitute a postconviction petition for an appeal or writ of error....
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