Dawkins v. State

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On August 19, 2002, in the Marshall County Circuit Court, Ellis Dawkins pled guilty to one count of capital rape. He was sentenced to serve twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) with ten years to serve and ten years suspended. Dawkins was also sentenced to five years of supervised probation. On July 1, 2009, Dawkins filed a petition to clarify his sentence alleging that his current sentence exceeded what he agreed to accept in his plea agreement. The circuit judge, viewing Daw-kins’s petition as a motion for…