Hall v. State

Robert Mason Hall appeals the circuit court's denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition in which he challenged his 1992 convictions for rape in the second degree and sodomy in the second degree, based on his pleas of guilty, and his subsequent sentences of 25 years' imprisonment on each conviction, those sentences to run concurrently. He appeals, raising one issue.

Hall contends that the trial court was without jurisdiction to accept his guilty pleas. Hall was indicted pursuant to §§13A-6-61(a)(1) and 6-63(a)(1), Code of Alabama 1975, for rape in the first degree and for sodomy in the…