Wilson v. State

Ruffin, Presiding Judge.

On October 3, 1995, Jerry Wilson entered a negotiated guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm during *628the commission of a felony. The trial court sentenced Wilson to consecutive terms of twenty years for manslaughter and five years for the firearm charge. Although the trial court granted Wilson’s request for first offender treatment,1 it ordered him to serve “straight time,” without any probationary period. Approximately five years later, Wilson filed a “Motion to Correct Sentence,” asserting that, given his first offender status, the trial…