State v. O'Neal

This case stems from the unsuccessful effort of the defendant to withdraw a plea of guilty entered in the associate division of the circuit court of Jasper County. Upon the entry of that plea the court continued the case to a day certain. Then, following a considerable delay (apparently the defendant was elsewhere incarcerated) different counsel was appointed for him. Before he was sentenced, the defendant filed a motion to withdraw his plea of guilty. That motion was premised upon misapprehension of the consequences of the plea of guilty. The motion was overruled and upon the same day the…