Ireland v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for rape in Jefferson County and entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Subsequently, on December 4, 1968, the day the case was set for trial, appellant, on advice of employed counsel, withdrew these pleas, entered a plea of guilty and received a ten year sentence. This sentence is the minimum punishment for rape in Alabama. Tit. 14, § 395, Code of Alabama, 1940.

Appellant now alleges, through a petition for a writ of error coram nobis, that he was coerced into pleading guilty.

At the hearing held in the trial court on this…