Tatum v. State

This is an appeal from the summary denial of two Rule 32, A.R.Crim.P., petitions for post-conviction relief. The appellant challenges his two 1990 guilty plea convictions for robbery in the third degree. The circuit court denied the petitions without a response from the district attorney and without an evidentiary hearing. This judge was the same judge who accepted the petitioner's guilty pleas.

The appellant contends that he was given no notice, prior to the entry of his guilty pleas, of the State's intent to proceed against him as a habitual offender, and that he is therefore entitled to…