Hughes v. State

Barnes, Judge.

Jeffrey S. Hughes, pro se, appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to vacate a void sentence. This appeal follows this court’s affirmance of Hughes’s conviction, after a bench trial, for robbery by sudden snatching. See Hughes v. State, 266 Ga. App. 652 (598 SE2d 43) (2004).

In this appeal, Hughes contends the trial court erred by denying his motion because the trial court imposed an illegal sentence through improperly sentencing him as a recidivist, imposing a sentence for which he was neither indicted nor put before a jury, denying him of his right to parole, and…