Coates v. Seay

Jordan, Justice.

Appellant’s application for habeas corpus attacking his sentence for escape was denied by the trial court. We granted his application for appeal to this court.

Appellant raises a number of contentions in his pro se petition but in the evidentiary hearing in the trial court he presented evidence on only two issues: One, that he was placed in double jeopardy when he entered a plea of guilty to escape since he had earlier received administrative punishment for that offense; and two, that he had ineffective assistance of counsel in that his lawyer "tricked” him into pleading guilty.