BYLER v. STATE

No. CR 74-68.

513 S.W.2d 801 (1974)

James Rupert BYLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

September 23, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Newcomb, Pine Bluff, for appellant.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., by O. H. Hargraves, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a Rule 1 petition by which the appellant Byler seeks to withdraw his plea of guilty to a charge of second-degree murder, on the grounds that he did not validly waive the assistance of counsel and did not intelligently and voluntarily enter the plea of guilty. The Honorable John L. Anderson, circuit judge, accepted the plea after a brief hearing on April 4, 1973. The Honorable Elmo Taylor, circuit judge, denied Byler's Rule 1 petition...

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