Howard v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Indiana’s Rules on Post>-Conviction Remedies provide an avenue by which convicts may seek permission for belated consideration of appeals addressing their conviction. They do not provide an avenue for appeals of other post-judgment petitions. Here, the prisoner has attempted to initiate an untimely appeal from the denial of a post-conviction petition. The trial court and the Court of Appeals correctly denied permission.

Appellant Dallas Howard was convicted of murder in the first degree during a May 1974 jury trial. We affirmed his conviction on direct appeal. Howard v.…