Hawk v. State

WELCH, Judge.

Doyle Kordell Hawk appeals from the circuit court’s summary denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., in which he attacked his October 2012 guilty-plea convictions on three counts of the unlawful possession of a controlled substance and his resulting sentences as a habitual offender to life imprisonment. Hawk did not file a direct appeal.

*98On May 14, 2013, Hawk filed the instant Rule 32 petition in which he alleged the following: (1) that the trial court was without jurisdiction to adjudicate the case because his arrest was…