ROBINSON v. STATE

No. 1998-CP-01227-SCT.

759 So.2d 1125 (1999)

Roy ROBINSON v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Robinson, Appellant, pro se.

Office of the Attorney General by W. Glenn Watts, Attorney for Appellee.

BEFORE SULLIVAN, P.J., BANKS AND WALLER, JJ.


BANKS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. This Court is faced with the issue of whether the petitioner, Roy Robinson, who pled guilty to felony escape, is entitled to post conviction relief on the grounds that his sentence exceeded the maximum allowed by law because the indictment against him did not specify which of several escape statutes he was charged with violating. We conclude that Robinson's claim is based on a mistaken belief that the statute under which he...

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