Title: Martin v. State
Citation: 480 N.E.2d 548
Docket Number: 785S275
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: July 10, 1985

480 N.E.2d 548 (1985)
Doren MARTIN, Appellant (Defendant below),
v.
STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Plaintiff below).
No. 785S275.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
July 10, 1985.
Susan K. Carpenter, Public Defender, William L. Touchette, Deputy Public Defender, Indianapolis, for appellant.
Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Cheryl L. Greiner, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.
PRENTICE, Justice.
This cause is before us upon the petition of the State (Appellee) to transfer it from the Court of Appeals, Second District, following its reversal, on rehearing, of the trial court's denial of Petitioner's (Appellant's) petition for post-conviction relief. Because we find that the decision of the Court of Appeals controvenes ruling precedent of this Court, as hereinafter set forth, we grant the State's petition to transfer, order the opinions of the Court of Appeals reported at 470 N.E.2d 733 and 474 N.E.2d 536 vacated and affirm the trial court's judgment denying the relief sought by Petitioner, i.e. the withdrawal of his guilty plea, but, nevertheless, remand the cause to the trial court with instructions.
The issue with which we are here concerned is the identical one determined by us this date in Deetra J. (Shelby) Martin v. State, Ind. App., 480 N.E.2d 543, i.e. the retroactive application of German v. State (1981), Ind., 428 N.E.2d 234.
Petitioner's plea of guilty to Armed Robbery was entered in 1975. Upon his post-conviction petition, he sought to have the plea set aside as not having been given knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily, in that the trial court had failed to advise him fully, as required by Ind. Code § 35-4.1-1-3 (Burns 1979), and specifically that it had failed to advise him of his right to confront and cross examine the witnesses; the right to compulsory process; and the right to be speedily and publicly tried.
The record discloses that the trial court, at the guilty plea hearing, did not personally give Petitioner those aforementioned advisements but that Petitioner had acknowledged his awareness of them by execution of the "Plea Agreement" and the "Motion to Withdraw Former Plea of Not Guilty and to Enter a Plea of Guilty." Upon this evidence the post-conviction court found that the Petitioner had failed in his burden of proof and that the guilty plea had been entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily. He further found that the grounds for the relief sought were barred by laches, but in view of the other findings and our determination herein, that finding is of no consequence.
Inasmuch as Petitioner's guilty plea was entered in 1975, the post-conviction court correctly looked to the entire record to determine if he had been fully advised of and understood his constitutional rights and, upon that review found that he had failed in his burden of proof.
In the initial opinion (470 N.E.2d 733, 735) Judge Sullivan, writing for the Court of Appeals, observed and corrected a fundamental error that transpired in Petitioner's sentencing. We adopt that portion of that opinion, as hereinafter set forth, as our own:
Griffin, supra, 439 N.E.2d  at 162.
Id., 470 N.E.2d  at 735-37.
For the foregoing reasons, the cause is remanded to the trial court with instructions to modify the judgment entered upon Petitioner's guilty plea to reflect a conviction of attempted armed robbery. In all other respects the judgment denying post conviction relief is affirmed.
GIVAN, C.J., and DeBRULER and PIVARNIK, JJ., concur.
HUNTER, J., not participating.
[1]  "Ind. Ann. Stat. § 10-4709 (Burns, 1933, repealed 1976) provided as follows:

10-4709. Commission of or attempt to commit crime while armed with deadly weapon.  Any person who being over sixteen [16] years of age, commits or attempts to commit either the crime of rape, robbery, bank robbery, petit larceny or grand larceny while armed with a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun or any other firearm or any dangerous or deadly weapon, or while any other person present and aiding or assisting in committing or attempting to commit either of said crimes is armed with any of said weapons, shall be guilty of a separate felony in addition to the crimes above named and upon conviction shall be imprisoned for a determinate period of not less than ten [10] years nor more than twenty [20] years, to be fixed by the court: Provided, That such court shall have the right to provide in the judgment that such term of imprisonment shall not run concurrently with any imprisonment that may be adjudged for either of the crimes first above enumerated but that such term of imprisonment shall be served beginning at the expiration of the imprisonment adjudged for either of said first named crimes. See, I.C. XX-XX-X-X (Burns Code Ed. 1979) for current law."
[2]  "At the guilty plea proceedings, the following exchange occurred between the trial court and Martin:

`Q. Was she alone?
A. No, sir, her husband was there.
Q. You held up them both? [sic]
A. Yes sir.
Q. Anybody else in the house?
A. No sir.
Q. How much money did you get?
A. None sir.
Q. What did you get?
A. Nothing sir.
Q. Why didn't you get any money?
A. Because her busband come out and I got scared so I just run.'
Record at 171."