Christopher Lee Conyers v. State of Mississippi

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Christopher Conyers appeals the Lafayette County Circuit Court’s denial of his motion for postconviction relief (PCR).-Conyers claims that the trial court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to convict or sentence him. We find that the trial court possessed subject-matter jurisdiction over Conyers, and we affirm the trial court’s denial of Conyers’s PCR motion.

FACTS

¶ 2. According to the facts gleaned from Conyers’s filings, Conyers was convicted of armed robbery pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 97-3-79 (Rev. 2014), although it is unclear from the…