Watts v. State

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This appeal stems from an order by the Wayne County Circuit Court dismissing Carl Watts’s motion for post-conviction relief (PCR) as time-barred. Finding no error, we affirm.

FACTS

¶2. On July 30, 2010, Watts filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, which the circuit court treated as a motion for PCR. In his motion, Watts stated that on July 15, 1992, he pled guilty to robbery. The circuit court accepted his guilty plea and sentenced him to five years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), with instructions for the sentence “to run…