Laney v. State

OPINION

REID, Chief Justice.

This case presents an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals affirming the dismissal of a petition for post-conviction relief by the trial court on the ground that when the petition in this case was heard a previously filed petition for post-conviction relief was pending in the Court of Criminal Appeals.

A majority of the Court of Criminal Appeals found that the trial court “had no jurisdiction to consider” the petition. Judge Joe B. Jones, dissenting, argued that the trial court erred in dismissing the petition. The well-reasoned dissent by Judge…