Antonio Williams v. State of Mississippi

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Antonio Williams filed a motion for post-conviction relief in the Hinds County Circuit Court. The circuit judge summarily denied his motion, and Williams appealed. We assigned his case to the Court of Appeals, which dismissed his motion for lack of jurisdiction. We granted Williams’s petition for certiorari, and we now affirm the circuit judge’s denial of his motion on the merits.

¶ 2. In 1982, Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary. The trial judge sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment on one count, and five years’…