Case ID: ne3d_121/html/0152-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Vaidik, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Antrone L. CROCKETT, Appellant-Defendant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee-Plaintiff
    Court of Appeals Case No. 18A-CR-391
    Court of Appeals of Indiana.
    FILED January 31, 2019
    Appellant Pro Se: Antrone L. Crockett, South Bend, Indiana
    Attorneys for Appellee: Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General, Jesse R. Drum, Deputy Attorney General, Indianapolis, Indiana
    MEMORANDUM DECISION
   Vaidik, Chief Judge.

[1] In 2005, Antrone L. Crockett was convicted of Class A felony conspiracy to commit murder, and the trial court sentenced him to forty years. In 2018, Crockett filed a motion to correct erroneous sentence pursuant to Indiana Code section 35-38-1-15. Specifically, he argued that his "conviction is illegal on its Face" because the State did not properly charge him with conspiracy. Appellant's App. p. 22 (emphasis added). The trial court denied Crockett's motion without holding a hearing because he did not allege "that the sentence itself is erroneous on its face." Id. at 49. We affirm. The purpose of Section 35-38-1-15"is to provide prompt, direct access to an uncomplicated legal process for correcting the occasional erroneous or illegal sentence ." Robinson v. State , 805 N.E.2d 783, 785 (Ind. 2004) (emphasis added). Here, however, the basis of Crockett's motion is that his conviction-not his sentence-is illegal.

[2] Affirmed.

Mathias, J., and Crone, J., concur.