Morris v. State

GRIFFIS, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. James Morris pled guilty to aggravated assault in the Circuit Court of Sunflower County on October 28, 1982. Morris was sentenced to three years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. On May 18, 2004, Morris filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. The trial court treated Morris’s petition as a motion for post-conviction relief and dismissed the motion as time-barred.

¶ 2. Morris appeals to this Court asserting that his petition was incorrectly treated as a motion for post-conviction relief. He also argues that his petition was not…