Taylor v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

The appellant, Alfred R. Taylor, petitions for post-conviction relief from his place of confinement in the penitentiary where he is serving a ninety-nine year sentence on his guilty-plea conviction for first degree murder. Taylor and others apparently killed a liquor store operator in Memphis. He does not deny his guilt in his petition, expressly stating that he was “not trying to prove his innocence”. Nor does he deny that his guilty plea was voluntarily and under standingly entered. (The technical record includes his signed petition expressly negating any such idea, as…