Legal Opinion

Wilson v. State

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided February 12, 1968No. 18758Published

1Opinion of the Court

Lewis, Justice.

This habeas corpus proceeding involves the validity of a plea of guilty allegedly entered in 1962 by appellant, Hopson Wilson, Jr., to a charge of burglary. He is presently confined in the State Penitentiary under concurrent sentences of ten years for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and twenty-five years for burglary, both' sentences imposed on December 4, 1962 on the basis of the entry by him of pleas of guilty to the charges. Appellant now contends in this proceeding, instituted approximately three years later, that, while he entered a plea of guilty to…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Thompson v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1966
  2. Cousar v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1967

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