Basham v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

These are appeals from convictions of murder. Appellant’s pleas of guilty to the murders of Debbie and Rose Eldridge were accepted by the trial court. Punishment was assessed at life for each offense. Sentences were to run consecutively.

Appellant’s first two grounds of error attack the trial court’s “fail[ure] to make an independent determination of defendant’s competency to plead guilty;” and its acceptance of his plea which was “not knowingly or understandingly made and is constitutionally infirm.”

The record reflects that a pre-trial competency hearing was had in…