William Joseph Hayes

OPINION

PEAY, Judge.

The petitioner pled guilty to one count of solicitation to commit first-degree murder and was sentenced pursuant to a plea-bargain as a Range I standard offender to eight years incarceration in the Tennessee Department of Correction. Judgment was entered on August 25, 1994. On May 3, 1996, the petitioner filed for post-conviction relief alleging that he had pled guilty as a result of ineffective assistance of counsel. The court below summarily dismissed the petition on the grounds that “measured against the court record, the petition for post conviction relief is without…