State of Tennessee, Petitioner v. Andrew MacKey, Respondent

Summary

The Tennessee Supreme Court sustained the core of the Court of Criminal Appeals' Boykin ruling: because the record was silent as to whether the defendant was advised that his prior convictions would be admissible before the jury fixing punishment, his guilty plea to felonious escape could not stand. At the same time, the Court held that evidence of the prior convictions and of an attempted escape during trial was entirely proper at the punishment hearing following a plea of guilty, announcing a detailed mandatory plea-taking procedure and a comprehensive sentencing-hearing evidence procedure. It vacated the intermediate court's judgment, reversed the trial court's judgment, and remanded for a new trial.