State v. MacKey

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence of not less than one or more than two years in the state penitentiary on a plea of guilty to the charge of felonious escape. Two principal questions are presented: (1) whether the trial record adequately demonstrates that the guilty plea was voluntarily, understandingly, and intelligently made as required by Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969); and (2) whether evidence of defendant’s prior convictions and other alleged misconduct was admissible before the jury selected to determine the issue…