Watkins v. State

This is an appeal from a dismissal of a petition for post-conviction relief. We affirm.

Petitioner Watkins was charged with murder in the first degree and kidnapping in the second degree. The kidnapping charge was dismissed and the murder charge reduced to murder in the second degree, to which Watkins pled guilty. He was sentenced to an indeterminate period not to exceed twenty-five years.

Approximately eighteen months thereafter Watkins, through counsel, filed a petition for post-conviction relief. That petition alleged that the sentence of twenty-five years constituted cruel and unusual…