Jones v. Lee

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

The superintendent of the Stone Mountain Correctional Institution brings this appeal from the grant of Lee’s petition for habeas corpus. In his petition, Lee claimed his guilty plea was not voluntary because he was not informed of his right to have an attorney appointed for him, that he did not understand the nature of the proceedings, that the trial court was not informed of the facts of the case, and that he was not informed of the maximum possible sentence which could be imposed. Lee testified in support of these allegations at the habeas hearing. The state…