Skinner v. State

The appellant is incarcerated in the penitentiary under consecutive guilty-plea convictions for third degree burglary, entered while represented by retained counsel.

He has filed a post-conviction petition in which he seeks to void his convictions, because, he says:(1) Before his trial he was severely beaten by police officers, suffering head injuries, as a result of which he has had and continues to have lapses of memory and blackout spells.(2) When he entered his second guilty plea, he was allowed only five minutes to confer with counsel, was threatened with a long prison term by the…