Catchings v. State

MYERS, P.J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Roderic C. Catchings appeals the Rankin County Circuit Court’s dismissal of his motion for post-conviction relief. Finding that the circuit court erred in dismissing Catchings’s motion as successive-writ barred, we reverse and remand the circuit court’s judgment for the court to consider the motion on the merits.

FACTS

¶ 2. Catchings pleaded guilty to three counts of armed robbery and one count of aggravated assault on November 28, 2005. The circuit court sentenced Catchings to twenty years on the aggravated assault charge and thirty-five year terms on each armed…