SULLEN v. STATE

1 Div. 409.

284 So.2d 295 (1973)

Willie Arthur SULLEN v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

October 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Barnett, Mobile, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Kent Brunson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


ALMON, Judge.

Appellant pled guilty to an indictment charging rape and his punishment was fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

The record does not show that the appellant was properly advised of his privilege against compulsory self-incrimination guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment and applicable to the States by reason of the Fourteenth. Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238, 89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274.

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