Gulledge v. State
| Decision Date | 10 July 2003 |
| Docket Number | No. S03A0506.,S03A0506. |
| Citation | 276 Ga. 740,583 S.E.2d 862 |
| Parties | GULLEDGE v. The STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
OPINION TEXT STARTS HERE
Arthur M. Gulledge, Valdosta, pro se.
Kermit N. McManus, Dist. Atty., Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Arthur Mark Gulledge was indicted for malice murder, felony murder (aggravated assault), aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm by a first offender probationer. He entered a guilty plea in January 2002 to felony murder and aggravated assault pursuant to a plea bargain under which the malice murder and possession of a firearm charges were nol prossed and the aggravated assault was merged with the felony murder charge. He admitted at the guilty plea hearing that he fired eleven shots at his roommate, hitting him with eight of them and killing him. In August 2002, acting pro se as he continues to do in this appeal, Gulledge filed a motion for new trial; a motion for a trial transcript; and a motion to reduce, modify, or set aside his sentence and to conduct an evidentiary hearing. The first two motions were denied that same month. In September 2002, Gulledge filed in the trial court an application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal, a motion to withdraw the guilty plea, and a motion to reconsider the motion for a trial transcript. Those motions were denied that same month, as was the motion for an evidentiary hearing. Gulledge then filed two more motions, one entitled "Extraordinary Motion for New Trial," and the other, "Motion to Vacate/Motion to Set Judgment Aside." Both were denied by orders entered on October 28, 2002. Gulledge filed a notice of appeal on November 7, 2002, which specified that he was appealing from the conviction and sentence entered on January 3, 2002. Although Gulledge referred to OCGA § 5-6-39 in his notice of appeal, the record contains no request for an extension of time for filing the notice of appeal.
OCGA § 5-6-38(a) requires that a notice of appeal be filed within 30 days after entry of the judgment complained of, or within 30 days after the entry of the order finally disposing of a motion for new trial.
Rowland v. State, 264 Ga. 872(1), 452 S.E.2d 756 (1995). In the present case, the only two orders filed less than 30 days before the filing of the notice of appeal were those denying Gulledge's motions he denominated as an extraordinary motion for new trial and a motion to vacate or set aside his conviction. The denial of the extraordinary motion for new trial cannot serve as the basis for this appeal because a direct appeal does not lie from the denial of an extraordinary motion for new trial separate from the original appeal; an application for discretionary appeal is required. OCGA § 5-6-35(a)(7); Balkcom v. State, 227 Ga.App. 327, 329, 489 S.E.2d 129 (1997). The denial of the motion to set aside is likewise unavailing as a basis for a direct appeal because pretermitting whether such a motion is available in a criminal case (but see Lacey v. State, 253 Ga. 711, 324 S.E.2d 471 (1985) ( ...
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