Johnson v. State

Appellant entered a plea of guilty to violation of the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act and received a sentence of four years. After sentence was entered, appellant filed a "petition for reconsideration" requesting the circuit judge to "reconsider the imposition of sentence and the denial of probation which was adjudicated on December 14, 1984." However, there was no motion for leave to withdraw appellant's guilty plea, nor a motion for new trial filed at the trial court level. The record contains an Ireland form which states that the applicable punishment is a term of imprisonment…