Title: Nelson v. State
Citation: 465 N.E.2d 1391
Docket Number: 683S202
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: July 27, 1984

465 N.E.2d 1391 (1984)
Eric NELSON, Appellant (Respondent below),
v.
STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Petitioner below).
No. 683S202.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
July 27, 1984.
Rehearing Denied September 17, 1984.
Susan K. Carpenter, Public Defender, David Swinford, Deputy Public Defender, Indianapolis, for appellant.
Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Richard Albert Alford, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.
HUNTER, Justice.
In petition for post-conviction relief,
GIVAN, C.J., and DeBRULER, J., concur.
PRENTICE, J., concurs in result.
PIVARNIK, J., dissents.
[1]  The record shows that the court did carefully inform petitioner of the specific constitutional rights that he waived by pleading guilty. However, he did not inform petitioner "of any possible increased sentence by reason of the fact of a prior conviction or convictions" as the statute required. Ind. Code § 35-4.1-1-3(d) (Burns 1979 Repl.). Later, at the sentencing hearing, the court did use the prior convictions as one of the aggravating factors to enhance the sentence.
[2]  Hoelscher v. State, (1984) Ind., 465 N.E.2d 715; Avery v. State, (1984) Ind., 463 N.E.2d 1088; Johnson v. State, (1983) Ind., 453 N.E.2d 975.