Scott v. State

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On April 1, 1988, Thomas Scott pled guilty to murder under Mississippi Code Annotated section 97 — 8—19(l)(c) (Rev.2006). He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Thirty years later, on June 12, 2013, Scott filed a motion for post-conviction relief (PCR), alleging that he received an illegal sentence due to a defective indictment and ineffective assistance of counsel. The Jones County Circuit Court held that Scott’s PCR motion was time-barred since it was filed outside the three-year statute of limitations…