Evans v. State

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order denying appellant’s Rule 1 petition for postconviction relief from a 21-year sentence based upon a charge of grand larceny. For reversal the appellant contends that: “The appellant has at all times insisted that he was never advised of all his constitutional rights prior to his entering a plea of guilty.” The thrust of appellant’s argument is that since he did not have the advice of counsel when he entered his plea, he misunderstood the effect of his agreed concurrent sentence, i. e., he understood that his 21-year sentence and the 17-year…