Shuman v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Ernest Shuman appeals pro se from the trial court’s order denying his motion for an out-of-time appeal from his June 1990 guilty pleas related to the murder of seven-year-old Ronald Wyche, Jr., whom Appellant choked to death, put in a bag, and threw into a river in Thomas County. We affirm.

1. Appellant was arrested pursuant to a warrant issued on May 3, 1990. Later that month, Appellant’s attorney succeeded in quashing a subpoena for some of his psychiatric records, which contained incriminating statements. On June 21, 1990, the grand jury indicted Appellant for malice murder…