Case ID: ga_281/html/0887-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SEARS, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S07A0448.
    BOONE v. THE STATE.
    (644 SE2d 136)
    Decided April 24, 2007.
    Verdice Boone, pro se.
    
    
      Fred A. Lane, Jr., District Attorney, Craig E. Miller, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, for appellee.
   SEARS, Chief Justice.

In 2001, Verdice Boone pled guilty in Polk County to felony murder, aggravated battery, and arson. He received a life sentence for felony murder and a concurrent 20-year sentence for the arson offense. In 2006, Boone filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. “It is well settled that when the term of court has expired in which a defendant was sentenced pursuant to a guilty plea, the trial court lacks jurisdiction to allow the withdrawal of the plea. [Boone’s] only available means to withdraw his guilty plea is through habeas corpus proceedings.” Accordingly, the trial court properly denied Boone’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur. 
      
      
        Henry v. State, 269 Ga. 851, 853 (507 SE2d 419) (1998) (citations omitted).
     
      
      
        Rubiani v. State, 279 Ga. 299 (612 SE2d 798) (2005).