Haywood v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellant was charged in 1980 with first degree murder and with being an habitual offender, having at least four prior felony convictions. He entered into plea negotiations which culminated in his pleading guilty to second degree murder and being sentenced as an habitual offender to twenty years imprisonment, the minimum sentence for an habitual offender with four prior convictions. At the time appellant entered his plea he stated that he had been found guilty on four occasions.

In 1984 appellant filed a petition in circuit court for a writ of mandamus seeking to…