Ussery v. Avery

■ On August 26, 1965, Walter William Ussery pleaded guilty to an indictment in case No. 11407, charging him with armed robbery, and was sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary. The same day, he pleaded guilty to an indictment in case No. 11406, charging him with a second offense of armed robbery, and was sentenced to serve ten years in the state penitentiary; the sentence in the last case to be served consecutive to the sentence in No. 11407. After transfer to the state penitentiary, on November 21, 1966, Ussery filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of…