Smith v. State

JAMES L. ROBERTS, Jr., Justice,

for the Court:

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

¶ 1. On July 11, 1973, the Circuit Court of Forrest County accepted Donald E. Smith’s plea of guilty to a charge of murder and sentenced Smith to a term of life imprisonment. On June 20, 1997, Smith filed a petition for post-conviction relief in the Circuit Court of Sunflower County, asserting that he should have been sentenced to a term “reasonably less than life.” Noting that the petition was “frivolous”, the trial court summarily denied it on June 25, 1997. The record contains another order, entered July 2, 1997, in which…