Jackson v. State

In 1994, Deloris Jackson was found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 240 months’ imprisonment. Ms. Jackson was represented at trial by her retained attorney, J. Sky Tapp, who filed a timely notice of appeal of the judgment. The appeal was not perfected, and petitioner Jackson has now tendered to this court a partial record of the lower court proceedings with a motion for rule on clerk and an affidavit of indigency, asking that the appeal be allowed to proceed. Petitioner contends that the appeal was not perfected because she did not have the money to pay for the…