Minnesota Supreme Court, 1967

State ex rel. Riggers v. Tahash

Minnesota Supreme Court · Decided August 4, 1967

277 Minn. 505; 152 N.W.2d 476; 1967 Minn. LEXIS 974 (Minnesota Reports)

Counsel

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, and Murray L. Galimon, Assistant State Public Defender, for appellant., Douglas M. Head, Attorney General, and Gerard W. Snell, Solicitor General, for respondent, warden of State Prison.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Washington County denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus without a hearing.

Applying the rules established in State ex rel. Roy v. Tahash, 277 Minn. 238, 152 N. W. (2d) 301, the petition appears to sufficiently allege some facts which, if proved, would entitle petitioner to relief, thus precluding a summary disposition. The decision of the trial court must, therefore, be reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings in accordance with our supervening postconviction-remedy statute, Minn. St. 590.01, et seq., (L. 1967, c. 336). See, State ex rel. Cable v. Tahash, 277 Minn. 503, 152 N. W. (2d) 308.

Reversed and remanded.

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