Clark v. State

IRVING, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On January 5, 2004, Cornell Clark pleaded guilty to kidnapping and armed carjacking. Following his plea, the Coaho-ma County Circuit Court sentenced him to two thirty-year sentences, with ten years of each thirty-year sentence suspended, to be served concurrently in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. On April 10, 2006, Clark filed a motion for records and transcripts, and on July 21, 2008, he filed a petition for order to show cause. In his petition, Clark argued that his indictment was defective because it lacked the signature of the grand…