Ross v. State

The appellant, Clifford Ross, appeals the trial court's summary dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus wherein Ross alleges that he is being unlawfully detained pursuant to a ten-year sentence for his 1984 conviction for the offense of rape in the second degree, entered on his plea of guilty. He specifically contends that this judgment is void because the trial court failed to observe the requirements of § 15-15-22, Code of Alabama 1975, since his plea to a charge allegedly not included in the indictment was entered within three days after notice to the court of his intention to…