Furr v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

By this appeal we are again asked to decide whether a factual basis for a plea of guilty was established in the trial court.

In January 1984 appellant pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and, as an habitual offender, to having committed an aggravated robbery. The plea was tendered as part of a plea agreement for a sentence of twenty years with five years suspended for aggravated robbery and a concurrent sentence of five years for possession of a firearm. At the close of the plea hearing, the circuit judge accepted the pleas and imposed the sentence…