Moore v. State

308 Ga. 312

FINAL COPY S20A0115. MOORE v. THE STATE. ELLINGTON, Justice. In this murder case, the trial court summarily denied Marcus Moore’s motion for an out-of-time appeal from his convictions arising from a guilty plea. The trial court later sua sponte dismissed Moore’s notice of appeal from the order denying his motion for an out-of-time appeal, based on its determinations that the judgment was not then appealable and that the questions presented had become moot. Moore filed a timely notice of appeal from the dismissal order. Because trial courts are not authorized to dismiss appeals for…