Riggins v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction and sentence on defendant’s plea of guilty of theft in the third degree to an indictment that charged him with theft in the second degree “in violation of Title 13A-8-4 of the 1975 Code of Alabama.”

The transcript shows that upon the call of the case for trial the following occurred:

“MR. HARRISON: (Defendant’s Attorney):

“Are you read, Your Honor?

“THE COURT: Yes.

“MR. HARRISON: Your Honor, in case number CC89-339, where Mr. Robert Rig-gins, the defendant in this case, has been indicted on a count of second…