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STATE v. KNIGHT

No. 7628.

402 P.2d 380 (1965)

75 N.M. 197

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles B. KNIGHT, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

May 24, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Winston Cook, Santa Fe, for appellant.

Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen., Roy G. Hill, Wayne C. Wolf, Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, for appellee.

EDWIN L. SWOPE, District Judge.

Appellant appeals from a sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon him pursuant to the provisions of the Habitual Criminal Act, Sections 40A-29-5 to 8, N.M.S.A. 1953. He contends that the sentence is invalid for the reasons that he was not given a preliminary hearing on the habitual criminal charges nor formally arraigned; that he was not informed of his rights by the court as required by the Act; and that only two of the alleged four...

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