Ex Parte Watkins

OPINION

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Applicant filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus alleging an “impossible plea bargain situation” wherein he had agreed to plead guilty to a charge of murder and forego an appeal in the murder case as well as an unrelated cause in another county for which he had been sentenced as an habitual criminal, in return for the State’s agreement to drop the capital feature of the indictment against him. Applicant alleged that, regardless of the agreement, he had been given permission to appeal by the trial court but that appointed counsel had failed to prosecute an…