Hicks v. State

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

This is an appeal by movant (hereinafter “defendant”) Phillip Hicks from the denial of his second post-conviction motion. He seeks to set aside three 1961 guilty plea judgments imposing two life sentences for rape and a twenty-year sentence for burglary-

The case history: In 1961 defendant was 16 years old; charges were certified from the juvenile court to the circuit court. There defendant was represented by attorney James Rankin and sentenced on his pleas of guilty. Five years later defendant filed his first post-conviction motion and was represented by attorney Irvine…