Ballew v. State

Moss, Chief Justice:

Jack Ballew, the appellant herein, represented at the time by retained counsel, entered a plea of guilty at the 1966 May Term of the Court of General Sessions for Sumter County to an indictment containing two counts, one charging housebreaking and the other grand larceny. The trial judge imposed a sentence of fifteen years.

Thereafter, on October 10, 1972, the appellant filed an application for postconviction relief alleging that the sentence of fifteen years, in gross, was improper and illegal. On June 28, 1973, the Honorable Dan F. Laney, Jr., Resident Judge, denied the…