Nixon v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

The major complaint presented by Todd Luther Nixon (Nixon) is that the trial court committed an abuse of discretion in denying his motion to withdraw his pleas of guilty to charges of first degree murder and aggravated assault and battery, which was made prior to sentencing. At the change of pleas hearing, in response to a question by Nixon about whether something less than a life sentence could be imposed for murder in the first degree, the trial judge stated: "Under the existing case law a judge could still put you on probation[.]" Nixon claims that he relied upon this…