Gibbs v. State

Beasley, Presiding Judge.

In 1978 Gibbs was convicted of one count of rape, OCGA § 16-6-1, and two counts of armed robbery, OCGA § 16-8-41. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and two twenty-year terms to be served consecutively. Almost five months after judgment, he filed a pro se motion for out-of-time appeal, which the court treated as an application for habeas corpus relief and denied. Application for habeas relief was made in 1990, but the court found that all claims either were or could have been raised in what it regarded as the prior habeas application and denied relief. The next…