Coker v. State

OPINION

WADE, Judge.

The petitioner, Rocky Lee Coker, filed two separate petitions for post-conviction relief. The trial court consolidated the claims, conducted an evidentiary hearing, and denied relief on the first petition while granting a new trial on the second. The petitioner appeals the trial court’s denial of relief on the earlier petition; the issue presented for review is whether the trial court erred in concluding that a 1979 guilty plea had been knowingly and voluntarily entered. The state appeals the trial court’s grant of relief on the latter petition claiming as follows:(1) that…