Hudson v. the State

ELLINGTON, Presiding Judge.

In J anuary 1996, a Ware County jury found Randy Hudson guilty of armed robbery, OCGA § 16-8-41, as well as firearms offenses, and the trial court sentenced him to life in prison for armed robbery, plus a total of 15 years for the other offenses. In February 2015, Hudson filed a motion to correct void sentence, arguing that OCGA § 16-8-41 is ambiguous and establishes different punishments for armed robbery and that the rule of lenity therefore requires that he receive the lesser punishment. The trial court found that the sentence was not void, and that the court…