State Ex Rel. Adams v. Norvell

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

In his petition for habeas corpus, the petitioner below, Charles Leonard Adams, says that his conviction and sentence to ten years’ imprisonment on his plea of guilty to robbery with a deadly weapon was void because no evidence was presented to the jury under T.C.A. Sec. 40-2310. His appointed counsel amended the petition to charge also that he was required to waive his right to appeal as a condition of being able to enter a plea of guilty.

At the hearing both sides relied on the transcript of the proceedings when the guilty plea was entered and the petitioner…