Case Name: COOK v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1998-02-10
Citations: 230 Ga. App. 507
Docket Number: A98A0047
Parties: COOK v. THE STATE.
Judges: Eldridge, J, and Senior Appellate Judge Harold R. Banke concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 230
Pages: 507–507

Head Matter:
A98A0047.
COOK v. THE STATE.
(496 SE2d 785)
Decided February 10, 1998.
Craig Cook, pro se.
Spencer Lawton, Jr., District Attorney, Michael R. Dennard, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

Opinion:
McMurray, Presiding Judge.
Defendant Craig Cook was charged in an indictment with armed robbery (two counts), attempt to commit armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated sexual battery, and obstruction of a law enforcement officer for acts committed in Savannah, Georgia, in April and June 1995. Pursuant to a negotiated guilty plea, defendant was sentenced to 20 years, 15 to serve, for armed robbery in a sentence order entered March 19, 1996. On June 10, 1997, defendant filed a "Petition to Withdraw Plea of Guilty." He appeals pro se from the order of the trial court denying his motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Held:
The trial court correctly concluded it had no authority to grant defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea in this case, since the motion was filed after the expiration of the term of court in which the judgment of conviction on that plea was entered. State v. Right, 175 Ga. App. 65 (1), 66 (332 SE2d 363); Moore v. State, 116 Ga. App. 774 (158 SE2d 926). "[T]he only prescribed means for the [defendant's] filing the motion to withdraw his guilty plea, after the term of court at which the judgment of conviction was rendered, was through habeas corpus proceedings." Conlogue v. State, 243 Ga. 141, 142 (6) (253 SE2d 168), overruled on other grounds, Smith v. State, 253 Ga. 169 (316 SE2d 757).
Judgment affirmed.
Eldridge, J, and Senior Appellate Judge Harold R. Banke concur.