Ryals v. State

KING, C.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On July 23, 2008, Ricky Ryals filed a pro se motion to vacate and set aside his conviction of capital murder and sentence. The Forrest County Circuit Court summarily dismissed Ryals’s motion as a successive writ and as time-barred. Aggrieved, Ryals appeals. On appeal, Ryals raises the following issues: (1) whether the trial court erred in summarily dismissing the motion for post-conviction relief; (2) whether the trial court erred in holding that the motion to amend Ryals’s pleadings asserting that Mississippi Code Annotated sections 97-8-21 (Rev.2006), 99-19-101…