Freshwater v. State

OPINION

MAY, Judge.

Otis Freshwater pled guilty to misdemeanor battery in Marion City Court ("city court") some thirteen years ago. He recently filed a Trial Rule 60(B) motion for relief from that judgment, and the city court denied his request. He then petitioned the Grant Superior Court ("the trial court") for trial de novo on the city court's denial of Freshwater's motion for relief from the thirteen-year-old judgment. He appeals from the trial court's denial of his request for a trial de novo.

Freshwater raises three issues, which we consolidate and restate as whether the trial court's…