Dalton v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

In July 1996, James Dalton was tried before a jury and convicted of two counts of armed robbery, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and one count of possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Dalton directly appealed from the denial of his motion for a new trial, and in February 1999, this court affirmed Dalton’s conviction.1

More than five years later, on November 1, 2004, Dalton filed in the trial court a pro se “Motion to Vacate Illegal Conviction and *405Sentence,” claiming that his pre-trial extradition to…