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STATE EX REL. SOWARD v. RIGG

No. 37,725.

256 Minn. 140 (1959)

97 N.W. (2d) 468

STATE EX REL. ROY G. SOWARD v. DOUGLAS C. RIGG.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 26, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy G. Soward, pro se, for appellant.

Miles Lord, Attorney General, and Charles E. Houston, Solicitor General, for respondent, warden of Minnesota State Prison.

THOMAS GALLAGHER, JUSTICE.

Appeal by relator, Roy G. Soward, now in custody of respondent, Douglas C. Rigg, warden, Minnesota State Prison, from an order of the District Court of Washington County, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain his release from such custody. The petition for the writ sets forth that relator was illegally sentenced as a habitual criminal under M.S.A. 610.29 in that at the time of his sentence he had not admitted his conviction...

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