Campbell v. State

Troy C. Campbell, indicted for murder in 1979, entered a plea of guilty of manslaughter on February 25, 1980, and was sentenced on the same day by the Circuit Court of Copiah County to serve a term of fifteen years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections. On August 29, 1989, while incarcerated, Campbell filed a motion in the trial court to vacate his conviction and sentence pursuant to the Mississippi Post-Conviction Collateral Relief Act, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-35-1 et seq. (Supp. 1992). Without an evidentiary hearing, the trial court denied the motion finding that the motion was without…