Koon v. State

Justice WALLER:

Petitioner filed this petition for a writ of certiorari pursuant to Austin v. State, 305 S.C. 453, 409 S.E.2d 395 (1991), addressing the questions petitioner sought to have reviewed from the order denying his 1987 PCR application. We affirm the denial of relief in part, but vacate one of petitioner’s convictions because we find that the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to accept a guilty plea to one of the second-degree burglary charges.

FACTS

Petitioner pled guilty to four counts of second-degree burglary in 1986. He was sentenced to ten years imprisonment,…