Strickland v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, indicted as a repeat offender under OCGA § 17-10-7 (b), was convicted of robbery, OCGA § 16-8-40, for taking a .22 caliber rifle away from George Hill. He appeals. Held:

1. Defendant first challenges his sentence as a recidivist on the ground that his 1980 plea to aggravated assault was not entered with full constitutional warnings and waiver, in violation of Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U. S. 238 (89 SC 1709, 23 LE2d 274) and Andrews v. State, 237 Ga. 66 (226 SE2d 597). This conviction was one of three *445cited in the indictment as forming the basis for the repeat…