State ex rel. Owens v. Tahash
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State ex rel. Owens v. Tahash
Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the district court discharging a writ of habeas corpus.
On January 30, 1963, petitioner was apprehended by Steams County officers. That same day officers from Douglas County, after some joint interrogation with the Steams County officials, took petitioner to the Douglas County jail where he was served with a warrant for his arrest. Because of the temporary absence of the municipal judge in Alexandria, the county seat, petitioner was incarcerated until February 6, 1963, when he was brought before the committing magistrate. He was bound over to the district court on a $1,000 bond and remanded to the custody of the Douglas County sheriff. On March 4, 1963, he was charged by information in Douglas County with forgery in the second degree involving a check for $300.
Counsel was appointed and after consultation with him petitioner upon arraignment entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced on March 26, 1963, to an indeterminate term in the State Prison at Stillwater. Upon appeal to this court, we affirmed the conviction in State v. Owens, 268 Minn. 321, 129 N. W. (2d) 284.
According to the court’s memorandum filed with the order, discharge of the writ of habeas corpus was based on the grounds that the issues raised had been reviewed on the appeal to this court and that there was no merit to defendant’s claim of denial of his right of allocution.
The issues for our determination are whether the trial court erred in denying the writ of habeas corpus in view of defendant’s assertions that he had been denied (1) counsel and (2) the right of allocution.
Our recent case of State ex rel. Schwirtz v. Tahash, 273 Minn. 380, 141 N. W. (2d) 811, reviewed the law in Minnesota on when an evi
Affirmed.
Reference
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- State Ex Rel. David Owens v. Ralph H. Tahash.
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- Criminal law — postconviction claim — denial of evidentiary hearing. Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on a postconviction claim is left to the sound discretion of the trial court. Held, the pertinent issues raised here have already been determined in our earlier decision involving the same defendant. State v. Owens, 268 Minn. 321, 129 N.W.2d 284.Page 202