Barnett v. State

497 So.2d 443 (1986)

Freddie BARNETT

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 57225.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 5, 1986.

Freddie Barnett, pro se.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Billy L. Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before WALKER, C.J., and SULLIVAN and GRIFFIN, JJ.

WALKER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

In June of 1984, Freddie Barnett was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to a term of twenty (20) years. Some sixteen (16) months later, he filed in the Circuit Court of Warren County a motion for an out-of-time appeal. The circuit court denied the motion without conducting…