Marco S. Raine v. State of Mississippi

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Before the Rankin County Circuit Court, Marco Raine pled guilty to one count of uttering a forgery. On July 1, 2013, Raine filed a motion he labeled as a “writ of habeas corpus, in the alternative, [a] motion to vacate sentence [and] conviction and to set aside guilty plea [and] dismiss charges due to lack of subject[-]matter jurisdiction.” The circuit court summarily dismissed Raine’s motion, and Raine filed the present appeal asking this Court to determine whether the circuit court had subject-matter jurisdiction over his guilty plea and whether the circuit…