Farmer v. State

OPINION

TATUM, Judge.

The appellants, Retona Jean Farmer and Billy Wayne Dyer, were convicted of grand larceny and the punishment for each was fixed at not less than five nor more than ten years in the State Penitentiary. The convictions are affirmed.

The appellants filed separate briefs and both assigned error that the trial judge erred in not allowing them to plead guilty upon a plea-bargain agreement with the State under the terms of which each defendant was to be sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary. After the jury had been selected and sworn, but outside of their presence, the…