Stanley v. State

Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Jack Stanley, pled guilty to fourteen crimes of burglary and fourteen crimes of theft. After sentence and commitment to the Department of Correction, appellant filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea under A.R.Cr.P. Rule 26.1. Appellant alleged that his plea was made involuntarily because the prosecuting attorney threatened to put his wife, a co-defendant, on trial first and appellant feared that she might receive a substantial sentence. On appeal this motion is being considered pursuant to A.R.Cr.P. Rule 37 since it was filed after sentencing.…