Reese v. State

Miller, Judge.

Indicted for burglary, William Reese entered a negotiated guilty plea and was sentenced to serve eight years. He subsequently moved to withdraw his guilty plea because he was taking psychotropic medication for schizophrenia at the time the plea was entered. Reese appeals the trial court’s denial of that motion. We affirm.

After sentence is pronounced, a valid guilty plea cannot thereafter be withdrawn except upon the sound legal discretion of the trial court. A ruling on a motion to withdraw a guilty plea will not be disturbed on appeal absent manifest abuse of that discretion.…