FARIST v. STATE

No. A01A0647.

547 S.E.2d 618 (2001)

249 Ga. App. 320

FARIST v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied April 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Griffeth, Athens, Richard L. Dickson, for appellant.

Daniel J. Porter, Dist. Atty. George F. Hutchinson III, Asst. Dist. Atty. for appellee.


MIKELL, Judge.

Michael Edsel Farist appeals from the dismissal of his extraordinary motion for new trial, which was filed three years after he entered a guilty plea to seven counts of theft by taking. Because the superior court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the motion, we affirm.

The Superior Court of Gwinnett County accepted Farist's negotiated guilty plea on June 3, 1996. The court imposed an aggregate sentence of fifty years: six years in prison on Counts...

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