VIOLETT v. STATE

No. 12993.

295 N.W.2d 730 (1980)

Robert Alan VIOLETT, Petitioner and Appellant, v. STATE of South Dakota, Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided August 13, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Frankman of Willy, Pruitt, Matthews, Hurd, Farrell, Frankman & Johnson, Sioux Falls, for petitioner and appellant.

Gene Paul Kean, Sp. Minnehaha County Deputy State's Atty., Sioux Falls, for appellee.


FOSHEIM, Justice.

This is also an appeal from an order denying appellant's request for post-conviction relief. On May 2, 1977, appellant pleaded guilty to escape and was sentenced to fifteen months in the state penitentiary to run consecutively with his prior sentence for the crime of manslaughter. Appellant was represented by counsel throughout the escape proceedings.

At the time of the escape appellant was serving his sentence as a patient at the Human Services...

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