State ex rel. Farmer v. Trent

MeGRAW, Chief Justice.

Appellant Donald Farmer, Jr., appeals the refusal of the Circuit Court of Mingo County to grant habeas corpus relief on his claims that (1) he was not informed, at the time he pled guilty to charges of first-degree murder and robbery with the use of a firearm, of the various constitutional rights incident to standing trial, as required by W. Va. R.Crim. P. 11(c); and (2) the trial court failed to obtain a sufficient factual basis for his guilty plea to first-degree murder as required by W. Va. R.Crim. P. 11(f), in that he never expressly stated on the record that he…