Leverette v. State

Benham, Justice.

In 2000, appellant David Leverette entered guilty pleas to charges arising from the malice murder of his wife and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus several terms of years to be served concurrently with each other and with the life sentence.1 In June 2011, appellant filed a motion for out-of-time appeal which the trial court denied after holding a hearing. Leverette now appeals the denial of his motion for an out-of-time appeal. “[A]n appeal will lie from a judgment entered on a guilty plea only if the issue on appeal can be resolved by facts appearing in the record[,]”…