Jones v. State

308 Ga. 337

FINAL COPY S20A0372. JONES v. THE STATE. PETERSON, Justice. Tracy Jones, who pleaded guilty to murder and other offenses, filed a motion for out-of-time appeal, claiming that her plea counsel abandoned her after sentencing and that her right to appeal was thereby frustrated. The trial court denied Jones’s motion on the basis that she did not allege that her failure to file a timely appeal was due to ineffective assistance of counsel. But she did sufficiently state such an allegation in her pro se motion, and so we vacate and remand for a hearing as to whether counsel’s…