Moore v. State

Albert Moore, a prisoner presently incarcerated in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, prosecutes a direct appeal from an order issued on June 15, 1990, by the Circuit Court of Hinds County summarily denying his Motion for Writ of Habeas Corpus.

Moore contended in his motion for post-conviction relief that a fifteen (15) year suspended sentence imposed in December of 1979 for the crime of forcible rape was unlawfully revoked in March of 1990 because a suspended sentence may not be lawfully revoked after a period of five years or after a defendant's probationary period has already…