Williams v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

The petitioner appellant, Gerald Williams, is before this Court appealing from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief. The petitioner pled guilty to attempted murder, a class A felony, Ind. Code §§ 35-41-5-1 and 35-42-1-1, and was sentenced to a thirty-year term of imprisonment.

Petitioner raises two issues. We will reach the merits of one of them on appeal: (1) whether the record, as a whole, shows that petitioner entered his plea of guilty intelligently, knowingly, and voluntarily.

These are the facts pertinent to the appeal. On January 26, 1979, appellant…