Charles Franklin v. State

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ September 16, 2020 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A21A0242. CHARLES FRANKLIN v. THE STATE. In 2011, a jury convicted Charles Franklin of rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, and the false report of a crime. We affirmed Franklin’s convictions on direct appeal. See Franklin v. State,

335 Ga. App. 557

( 782 SE2d 461) (2016). In June 2020, Franklin filed a pro se motion for an out-of-time appeal. The trial court dismissed the motion, and Franklin then filed…