Keyton v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

This is an appeal of a 12-month jail sentence imposed pursuant to the entry of a guilty plea to driving with an expired tag.

An accusation was filed in the State Court of Fayette County charging Clinton Keyton with prowling and driving with an expired tag. A co-defendant, Marcus Franklin, was charged in a separate accusation with prowling. Keyton and Franklin entered not guilty pleas to prowling, waived a jury, and went to bench trial on the charge. Just prior to the start of trial, Keyton entered a nonnego-tiated guilty plea to the expired tag charge.

During trial, the police…