SYKES v. STATE

No. 97-CT-00196-SCT.

757 So.2d 997 (2000)

Earnest SYKES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 30, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earnest Sykes, Appellant, pro se.

Office of the Attorney General by Deirdre McCrory, Attorney for Appellee.

EN BANC.


PITTMAN, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. Earnest Sykes, an inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, filed a pro se motion for post-conviction relief in the Clay County Circuit Court. The circuit court found that the action was barred as a successive motion. The Court of Appeals of Mississippi determined on Sykes's appeal that the motion was not barred as a second filing. Instead, the Court of Appeals held that Sykes's motion was timebarred by the...

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