Andrews v. State

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

We granted petitioner’s application for a habeas corpus appeal to consider the question whether his guilty plea was voluntary under the standards set out in Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U. S. 238 (89 SC 1709, 23 LE2d 274) (1968). The trial court denied his petition and remanded him to custody. We reverse.

Petitioner, an illiterate, was indicted in August, 1974, on eight charges involving marijuana and gambling offenses and misdemeanor pistol offenses. An attorney was appointed and petitioner pleaded guilty, receiving a ten year sentence, with five years of the sentence…