Bevill v. State

INTRODUCTION

Randy Bevill appeals the denial without evidentiary hearing of his motion for post-conviction relief in the Circuit Court of Pontotoc County. Bevill's motion alleged, among other complaints, that his guilty pleas to burglary and larceny charges were involuntarily entered, because the circuit court had failed to advise him of the minimum sentences he faced, in violation of Rule 3.03 of the Mississippi Uniform Criminal Rules of Circuit Court Practice and Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969). Finding that the circuit court properly denied Bevill's…