Daniel Williamson v. State of Mississippi

CARLTON, J., FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. Daniel Williamson pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and one count of arson. The Neshoba County Circuit Court accepted Williamson's guilty plea and sentenced him to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for his manslaughter conviction and twenty years for his arson conviction, with the sentences to run consecutively, for a total of forty years to serve.

¶ 2. Williamson filed a motion for postconviction relief (PCR), which the trial court dismissed as a successive writ, duplicitous request, and lacking merit.…