Johnson v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Harvey Johnson, a/k/a Harvey English, appeals the judgment sentencing him on three counts of violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act following a plea of guilty.

1. Johnson enumerates as error the acceptance of his plea without assurance he was advised that the direct consequence of entering a non-negotiated plea on the charges of sale and possession with intent to distribute was the mandatory imposition of life sentences. The record indeed does not show that, at the time Johnson entered his plea to three 1995 drug violations, he voluntarily and intelligently subjected…