Patterson v. State

I

Kenneth Patterson, a prisoner presently incarcerated in the South Mississippi Correctional Institution at Leakesville, prosecutes this direct appeal from an order issued on May 24, 1991, by the Circuit Court of Lamar County summarily dismissing as time-barred his pro se "Motion To Vacate Guilty Plea" filed on May 10, 1991. The specific target of Patterson's post-conviction motion to vacate was a plea of guilty to armed robbery entered in Lamar County on November 28, 1983. We affirm the circuit court's denial of Patterson's motion to vacate his plea of guilty.

II

On November 28, 1983,…