Blaylock v. Hopper

This case involves a collateral attack upon a recidivist sentence imposed under Code Ann. § 27-2511.

In 1955 appellant pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Polk County without benefit of counsel to an accusation of burglary and was sentenced to serve ten to fifteen years in the state penitentiary. In 1968 he was tried and convicted in the same court of another burglary charge and was sentenced under the recidivist provision of Code Ann. § 27-2511 to the twenty-year maximum term for burglary. His attorney in the 1968 trial unsuccessfully objected to the use of the record of the 1955…