Motes v. State

Johnson, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate a criminal conviction as void. The appeal is without merit, so we affirm the trial court’s ruling.

In April 1981, Roy Motes and two other men were indicted for armed robbery. Motes pled not guilty to the charge, and was tried before a jury. On September 16, 1981, the jury found Motes guilty of armed robbery, and the trial court sentenced Motes to serve 20 years in prison.

Twenty-one years after his conviction, in May 2002, Motes moved the trial court to vacate his sentence and conviction on the ground that the…