Adams v. State

HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

This opinion consolidates two appeals from the trial court’s denial of Chester Lewis Adams’s motion for an out-of-time appeal from the judgments entered on his negotiated guilty pleas to two separate indictments. The first indictment involved, inter alia, charges of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, rape and aggravated sodomy. The second indictment set forth two counts charging Adams with terroristic threats and simple battery. Adams pled guilty to the offenses charged in both indictments at a single hearing on April 10, 1997. As to the first…