Twyman v. State

How can a trial court show compliance with Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274?

Compliance rests, if good in this appeal, on a plea of guilty. That plea in turn rests on the appellant’s signature to a written statement appended to another written statement signed by the judge. The latter statement is in narrative rather than in question and answer form. Judgment occurred June 1, 1973.

There is, however, in the record no court reporter’s transcription of any colloquy between the bench and the accused. See Walcott v. State, 288 Ala. 546, 263 So.2d 178; Honeycutt v.…