Brooks v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for post-conviction relief pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P. The appellant, Calvin Brooks, challenges his 1992 conviction for theft of property in the third degree, a misdemeanor, entered pursuant to his plea of guilty. The appellant argues that his plea of guilty was involuntary, that his trial counsel's assistance was ineffective, and that the trial court had no jurisdiction to enter the judgment or to impose sentence because, he says, he entered his plea within three days of giving notice to the court of his intention to plead guilty, and…