Spriggs v. State

Blackwell, Justice.

Following his entry of a plea of guilty but mentally ill, Robert Timothy Spriggs, Jr., was convicted in October 2012 of murder and several other crimes and sentenced. About seven months later, Spriggs filed a motion to withdraw his plea, but the trial court dismissed his motion as untimely. After the time passed in which Spriggs might have appealed as of right from the dismissal of his motion to withdraw, Spriggs filed another motion, this one seeking leave to take an out-of-time appeal from the dismissal of the motion to withdraw. The trial court, however, denied that…