Stokes v. State

HINES, Justice.

Defendant Nathan Stokes appeals an order of the Superior Court of Cobb County dismissing as untimely Stokes’s “amended” motion to withdraw his guilty pleas. The determinative question is whether Stokes’s in-term pro se letter to the clerk of court was, in fact, a motion to withdraw his guilty pleas for the purpose of rendering the subsequent out-of-term motion an amendment and timely for consideration by the superior court. Finding that it was not, we affirm.

On September 18, 2008, Stokes was charged, along with two other men, in a fifteen-count indictment stemming from a June…