Carroll v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

Matthew George Carroll stands convicted by a Harrison County jury for the state jail felony of delivery of a controlled substance.1 No motion for new trial was filed. On appeal, he asserts only that his trial counsel was ineffective because of allegedly inadequate questioning during voir dire of the jury panel. In light of the lack of any post-trial motion or hearing on the issue of trial counsel’s performance, Carroll creatively asks only that we send the matter back to the trial court for a hearing on the effectiveness of trial counsel. Because there…