Williams v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Robert Lewis Williams filed a petition for post-conviction relief from his conviction of possession of heroin, a felony, after trial on June 4, 1973, resulting in a sentence to seventy years’ imprisonment on three counts. He also filed a motion for disqualification in the post-conviction proceeding of Circuit Judge John W. Good-son, who had presided over his trial. In support of this motion, appellant Williams filed an affidavit in which he stated that immediately preceding the jury’s being excused from the courtroom to begin its deliberations in his trial, Judge…