Ricks v. State

RUFFIN, Presiding Judge.

On February 26, 2004, Morris Ricks was convicted of trafficking in cocaine. He filed a motion for new trial, but for various reasons no hearing on the merits was ever conducted. At a hearing on August 29, 2005, Ricks dismissed his counsel, and the hearing was therefore continued until October 27, 2005. We find no evidence in the record, however, that a hearing took place on that date. On August 21, 2006, the trial court denied Ricks’s motion for new trial. Ricks retained new counsel, who filed a motion for a hearing on the motion for new trial or, alternatively, for an…