Barnes v. State

BRIDGES, P.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Charged with the murder of Carole Chambliss, David Lee Barnes pled guilty to manslaughter. The Covington County Circuit Court found that Barnes entered his plea freely and voluntarily. As a result, the circuit court accepted Barnes’s plea. The circuit court sentenced Barnes to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. However, the circuit court suspended three years from Barnes’s twenty year sentence and left seventeen years on Barnes’s sentence.

¶ 2. On April 17, 2003, Barnes filed a pro se motion for post-conviction…