Hardman v. Hand

The opinion of the court was delivered by The appellant is presently confined in the Kansas State Penitentiary, and appeals from an order of the district court of Leavenworth County, entered August 17, 1961, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and remanding him to the custody of the warden of the penitentiary. On July 26, 1960, in response to the charge of statutory rape then pending against him in the district court of Crawford County, the appellant appeared in person, executed a written waiver of counsel, and entered a plea of guilty to the offense charged. On July 29, 1960, he was sentenced to a term of one to twenty-one years in the Kansas State Penitentiary (G.S. 1949, 21-424). The journal entry of conviction was filed in the district court on August 2, 1960.