Lee v. State

LONG, Presiding Judge.'

The appellant, Ronald Jerome Lee, appeals from the summary denial of his petition for post-conviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P. In his petition, he challenges the May 1996 judgment of the trial court revoking his probation, imposed as a result of his April 1995 guilty plea conviction for burglary in the third degree. The appellant did not take a direct appeal from the judgment revoking his probation.

The appellant claims that his failure to take a direct appeal from the judgment revoking his probation was through no fault of his own. See Rule…