Jackson v. State, 2000-CP-00153-COA.

CourtCourt of Appeals of Mississippi
Writing for the CourtBefore McMILLIN, C.J., LEE, and PAYNE, JJ.
Citation811 So.2d 340
PartiesNed JACKSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Mississippi, Appellee.
Docket NumberNo. 2000-CP-00153-COA.,2000-CP-00153-COA.
Decision Date16 January 2001

811 So.2d 340

Ned JACKSON, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Mississippi, Appellee

No. 2000-CP-00153-COA.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

January 16, 2001.


811 So.2d 341
Ned Jackson, Pro Se

Office of the Attorney General By Billy L. Gore, Attorneys for Appellee.

Before McMILLIN, C.J., LEE, and PAYNE, JJ.

McMILLIN, C.J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Ned Jackson has appealed from an order entered in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County denying, without hearing, any relief on his motion for post-conviction relief. We conclude that Jackson's motion was, in fact, a second attempt to gain post-conviction relief that did not fall within any of the statutory exceptions to the provision that bars subsequent filings after one motion has been acted upon by the court. Therefore, both the Jefferson County Circuit Court and, by logical extension, this Court are without jurisdiction to consider the appeal.

¶ 2. Jackson pled guilty to sexual battery on February 21, 1997. On November 10, 1999, he filed with the circuit court a "Motion to Correct, Modify, of Vacating Sentence," in which he specifically invoked this State's post-conviction relief statute as the basis for the court's jurisdiction to consider the matters raised in his motion. Among the grounds for relief asserted in that motion, Jackson claimed that he was coerced into pleading guilty, that his lawyer misled him as to his eligibility for parole, and that his counsel was ineffective because he should have known that a ten year mandatory sentence was excessive. Jackson asked that the circuit court reduce his sentence from ten to five years "and any other relief this Court deems necessary."

¶ 3. The circuit court, by order entered November 12, 1999, denied relief on the motion. The court, apparently limiting itself to Jackson's request for a reduction in his sentence, concluded that it lacked jurisdiction to alter his sentence in that manner. The court, in its order, did not consider Jackson's remaining and more general claim for relief, which, considering the caption of the motion, certainly could have been read to include a request that the sentence be vacated rather than simply modified. We have little doubt that this motion invoked the court's authority to act under the post-conviction relief statute. To the extent that the trial court interpreted the motion otherwise, that was simply an error of law readily correctable on appeal. However, Jackson did not perfect an appeal from the denial of that motion.

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