Jones v. State

The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant’s appeal of the circuit court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus and declared moot Appellant’s motion for an extension of time to file his brief-in-chief, holding that the claims Appellant raised were not grounds for the writ.In his habeas petition, Appellant argued that the writ should issue on the ground that he was unlawfully detained. The Supreme Court held that the assertions raised by Appellant as grounds for the writ either constituted a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment of conviction or did not implicate the facial validity of the judgment or the jurisdiction of the trial court, and therefore, Appellant failed to demonstrate that the writ should issue. View "Jones v. State" on Justia Law