Doctor v. State

ZUCCARO, Justice,

for the Court:

In February 1981, Alfred Charles Doctor, Jr. entered a guilty plea in the Circuit Court of Desoto County to two (2) counts of armed robbery and received two (2) concurrent ten (10) year sentences. In January 1985 he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, or, in the alternative, motion to vacate plea and sentence, contending that this guilty plea was involuntary. The trial court found the evidence conflicting and denied the petition. We affirm.

At a hearing on the merits, Doctor argued that his plea was induced by the promise of his attorney that he would be…