Greer v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

Appellant, William Greer, was charged with the offense of murder in 1978, and upon that charge entered his plea of guilty to voluntary manslaughter pursuant to a plea agreement approved by the court. He received a sentence of twenty years. Subsequently he filed a post-conviction proceeding which culminated in a hearing and a judgment denying relief. This is an appeal from that judgment.

In his petition below appellant sought to withdraw his plea of guilty because it was not made knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently, in that the trial court had failed to advise him of…