AIKENS v. STATE

No. A00A0099.

527 S.E.2d 916 (2000)

241 Ga. App. 816

AIKENS v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

January 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Warren Turner, Jr. & Associates, Jody D. Peterman, Valdosta, for appellant.

J. David Miller, District Attorney, Bradfield M. Shealy, Laura E. Anderson, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.


JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

A criminal defendant may not directly appeal from a guilty plea on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel if there has not been a post-plea hearing in the trial court developing that claim and instead the only evidence in the record is the transcript of the guilty plea hearing.1 Danny Aikens pled guilty to burglary and then directly appealed to this court on the ground that his trial counsel was ineffective...

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