State v. Cannon

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Coram nobis. Petitioner Billy Eugene Cannon pleaded guilty to four felonies in 1961 and the court sentenced him to twelve years’ imprisonment. In 1968, having been discharged, Cannon was tried under the Second Offender Act for armed robbery, found guilty by a jury and on the basis of his four prior convictions the court sentenced him to 18 years’ imprisonment.1 He is now serving the 1968 sentence. Petitioner now contends his guilty pleas in 1961 were invalid and the ensuing judgments were not a lawful basis for applying the *805Second Offender Act to his 1968 convictions.…