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        "text": "OPINION\nWOOD, Judge.\nThis is an appeal from a denial of post-conviction relief after a hearing. Section 21-1-1(93), N.M.S.A.1953 (Repl.Vol. 4). While certain findings of the trial court are attacked, we need not consider them. The dispositive issue is whether the trial court could properly refuse to find that petitioner requested his court-appointed attorney to appeal his conviction. Since we hold that the trial court could properly refuse this requested finding, there is no factual basis for a claim that petitioner was denied his right to appeal his conviction. For the right to appeal, and the court-appointed attorney\u2019s obligation in connection therewith, see State v. Gorton, 79 N.M. 775, 449 P.2d 791 (Ct.App.1969). Compare Maimona v. State, 82 N.M. 281, 480 P.2d 171 (Ct.App.1971); Barela v. State, 81 N.M. 433, 467 P.2d 1005 (Ct.App.1970).\nAt the hearing on the post-conviction motion, petitioner unequivocally testified that after his sentencing he asked his attorney to appeal. The attorney had no recollection of such a request. Thus, petitioner\u2019s testimony is not directly controverted. Petitioner asserts the trial court erred in not accepting petitioner\u2019s testimony as true.\nEven though testimony is not directly contradicted, the trial court is not always required to accept such testimony as true. For situations where the testimony need not be accepted as true, and New Mexico decisions applying this concept, see Samora v. Bradford, 81 N.M. 205, 465 P.2d 88 (Ct.App.1970). One of the situations where the testimony need not be accepted as true is when the testimony is \u201c * * * subjected to reasonable doubt as to its truth and veracity, by legitimate inferences drawn from the facts and circumstances of the case. * * * \u201d Samora v. Bradford, supra.\nHere, inferences from the facts and circumstances of the case subject petitioner\u2019s testimony to reasonable doubt as to its truth and veracity. These facts and circumstances are: petitioner was convicted in October, 1963; the claim concerning a request to appeal was not made until June, 1970; between these two dates, petitioner brought a habeas corpus proceeding in Santa Fe County District Court, another habeas corpus proceeding in the New Mexico Supreme Court, and a post-conviction proceeding under \u00a7 21-1-1(93), supra. See State v. Robinson, 78 N.M. 420, 432 P.2d 264 (1967).\nThe delay in asserting the claim now made and the failure to assert this claim in the habeas corpus and post-conviction proceedings are suspicious circumstances which cast doubt on the truth of petitioner\u2019s testimony. Patterson v. State, 81 N. M. 210, 465 P.2d 93 (Ct.App.1970); compare State v. Sandoval, 80 N.M. 333, 455 P.2d 837 (1969); State v. Chavez, 78 N.M. 446, 432 P.2d 411 (1967). Under these circumstances, the trial court was not required to accept petitioner\u2019s testimony as true and did not err in refusing the requested finding.\nThe order denying post-conviction relief is affirmed.\nIt is so ordered.\nHENDLEY and SUTIN, JJ., concur.",
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      "David W. Bonem, Quinn & Bonem, Clovis, for appellant.",
      "David L. Norvell, Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, Jay F. Rosenthal, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "486 P.2d 69\nLouis Lee ROBINSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE of New Mexico, Respondent-Appellee.\nNo. 649.\nCourt of Appeals of New Mexico.\nMay 28, 1971.\nDavid W. Bonem, Quinn & Bonem, Clovis, for appellant.\nDavid L. Norvell, Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, Jay F. Rosenthal, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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