Hughes v. State

CIACCIO, Judge.

Upon application of defendant we issued a writ of certiorari so that we could review the record of the proceedings in the district court concerning two post-conviction motions filed by defendant. Defendant’s first motion combined a request for an out-of-time appeal and an application for a writ of habeas corpus wherein he argued that the evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to sustain his conviction. Defendant’s second motion again raised the issue of sufficiency of the evidence, and raised a plea of self-defense. The district court summarily denied both motions…