Houff v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Houff was charged with having committed burglary on March 13, 1974. After a conviction and a reversal by this court (in an unpublished opinion), a negotiated plea of guilty was entered while Houff was being represented by a deputy public defender. At a hearing on March 3, 1978, the late Judge Kirby accepted the plea of guilty and imposed the recommended 20-year sentence, to run concurrently with a sentence that Houff was already serving in the Department of Correction. The judgment directed that at least one third of the sentence be served before Houff would be…