Ivey v. State

Hawes, Justice.

John Henry Ivey, Jr., pleaded "guilty” to two counts of armed robbery and two counts of carrying a concealed weapon. He was sentenced to serve ten years on each count, six years in the penitentiary and four on probation, and to serve one year on each misdemeanor count, the sentences all to run concurrently. At the second term of court after sentence was imposed, he filed a motion for a new trial on the general grounds only and a motion to withdraw his plea of guilty, alleging therein in substance that his pleas of guilty were coerced and that the lawyer whom he had employed to…