Cecil Ray v. State

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA,____________________ February 21, 2018 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order: A18A1177. CECIL RAY v. THE STATE. In 2004, Cecil Ray was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and other crimes. We affirmed his convictions on appeal. See Ray v. State,

292 Ga. App. 575

( 665 SE2d 345) (2008). In 2011, Ray filed a “motion to vacate void sentence,” claiming that the trial court improperly sentenced him as a recidivist because at sentencing the court considered a prior burglary conviction that had been used in the…