Wallace v. State

BENHAM, Justice.

Appellant Jack Ray Wallace was convicted of the 1990 murder of his estranged wife, and his conviction was affirmed in Wallace v. State, 272 Ga. 501 (530 SE2d 721) (2000). In January 2008, Wallace filed a motion pursuant to OCGA § 17-9-4 to vacate the judgment of conviction as void. The trial court denied the motion and Wallace filed a direct appeal to this Court.

The denial of a motion filed pursuant to OCGA § 17-9-4 is directly appealable. Chester v. State, 284 Ga. 162 (2) (664 SE2d 220) (2008). OCGA § 17-9-4 provides that “[t]he judgment of a court having no jurisdiction of…