Ex parte Williams

I concur in the result reached. The trial judge was correct in his findings following an evidentiary hearing that the mandatory prerequisites of Article 26.13, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., were not followed in the admonition given by the court when the petitioner entered a plea of guilty to the offense of burglary on December 18, 1970.

While the court advised the petitioner as to the range of punishment the court made no attempt to determine if the guilty plea was “uninfluenced by any consideration of fear, or by any persuasion, or delusive hope of pardon, prompting him to confess his guilt.” Article…