UHLENHOPP, Justice.
This appeal in a postconviction proceeding presents a procedural tangle and a problem of cumulative sentences.
On October 30, 1968, Melvin Cleesen, whom we will call defendant, was sentenced for breaking and entering to a term in the penitentiary not exceeding 10 years. He began incarceration accordingly. On January 5, 1971, he was sentenced for escape to a three-year term in the penitentiary, to run consecutively to the sentence of October...
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