Simmons v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for permission to file a belated motion to correct errors following a denial of appellant’s petition filed pursuant to post-conviction remedy Rule 1.

It is the position of the State that the trial court was correct in refusing to permit a belated motion to correct errors for the reason that

“The ends of justice do not require the allowing of a belated motion to correct errors, where the defendant and his counsel the Public Defender had failed to timely file a motion to correct errors on the adverse ruling by the Court on the Petition for Post…