Koonce v. State

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:

Petitioner, Ronald Thomas Koonce, upon a plea of guilty; was convicted for the offense of Murder, Case No. C-3299, in the District Court, Lincoln County. He was thereupon sentenced to life imprisonment on the 8th day of November, 1972. Subsequently, on June 24, 1976, the Petitioner filed a pro se application in the District Court, Lincoln County, for post conviction relief attacking the validity of that plea of guilty for certain constitutional infirmities. An evidentiary hearing was held on September 9, 1976, before the Honorable Donald E. Powers, in the Lincoln…