Jones v. State

The defendant plead guilty to a charge of rape of a teenage girh under one indictment and to a charge of common assault on the same occasion of another teen-age girl under a separate indictment, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Penitentiary for the more serious offense and to ten years on the lesser charge.

On this appeal, the defendant, claiming that his court-appointed counsel had advised him that if he plead guilty he would receive a sentence of twenty years, now contends that the court owed him a duty to explain more fully the possible consequences of the plea of guilty when…