Adams v. State

HOBSON, Justice.

Appellant was informed against for breaking and entering and for larceny on two separate occasions. On pleas of guilty, he was sentenced to five years of hard labor in each case, the sentences to run concurrently. After judgment and sentence, he filed a motion to withdraw the pleas of guilty and enter pleas of not guilty in both cases, on the primary ground that the previous pleas had been obtained from him by virtue of certain promises and threats made by one Levy Gatlin, a deputy sheriff of Polk County. The court denied the motion, after hearing, and this is the order…