Matthews v. State

SHEPARD, Justice.

Pursuant to a plea bargain, petitioner Walter Matthews pled guilty to two counts of robbery and the State dismissed the remaining charges filed against him. The trial court accepted his pleas and imposed the recommended sentence of consecutive terms of ten years and twenty years.

In this appeal from denial of post-conviction relief, Matthews argues that his pleas were not entered voluntarily and intelligently because the trial court did not advise him of his right to a public and speedy trial, the State's burden at trial to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that he…