Lewis v. State

Willie Edward Lewis appeals the circuit court's summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked his 1982 guilty-plea conviction for robbery in the second degree and his resulting sentence of two years' imprisonment. Lewis did not appeal his conviction and sentence.

Lewis filed the present petition on August 10, 2004. In his petition, Lewis alleged that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to accept his guilty plea to second-degree robbery because, he said, second-degree robbery was not a lesser-included offense of first-degree robbery as…