Rowland v. State

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

LAMAR, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Robert Rowland and two codefen-dants pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery and two counts of capital murder stemming from a 1979 incident. Rowland filed the instant petition for post-conviction collateral relief in 2007, claiming that the convictions and sentences for armed robbery violate his fundamental right against double jeopardy, as they were the underlying felonies for the capital-murder convictions. The trial court dismissed Rowland’s petition as time-barred, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. We granted certiorari and…