IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
NO. 2007-CP-00708-COA
CARL DEWAYNE WATTS
APPELLANT
v.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
APPELLEE
DATE OF JUDGMENT:
4/12/2007
TRIAL JUDGE:
HON. ROBERT B. HELFRICH
COURT FROM WHICH APPEALED:
FORREST COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT:
CARL DEWAYNE WATTS (PRO SE)
ATTORNEY FOR APPELLEE:
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
BY: BILLY L. GORE
NATURE OF THE CASE:
CIVIL - POST-CONVICTION RELIEF
TRIAL COURT DISPOSITION:
DISMISSED MOTION FOR POST-
CONVICTION RELIEF
DISPOSITION:
AFFIRMED - 07/01/2008
MOTION FOR REHEARING FILED:
MANDATE ISSUED:
BEFORE MYERS, P.J., GRIFFIS, ROBERTS AND CARLTON, JJ.
CARLTON, J., FOR THE COURT:
¶1.
Carl Dewayne Watts appeals the Forrest County Circuit Court’s dismissal of his motion for
post-conviction relief. Watts was indicted as a habitual offender for the sale of cocaine. After
pleading guilty, he received a thirty-year sentence. Watts’s sentence was suspended, provided that
he comply with several conditions. Watts did not comply, and his suspended sentence was revoked.
Aggrieved, he now appeals, asserting five separate alleged errors by the circuit court.
FACTS
¶2.
In September 2005, a Forrest County grand jury indicted Watts as a habitual offender for
selling cocaine to a confidential informant. His indictment listed four previous felony convictions.
He pleaded guilty on November 29, 2005, and was sentenced to a term of thirty years in the custody
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of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. His entire sentence was suspended, and several
conditions were attached to the suspended sentence. At issue here is Watts’s banishment from the
Hattiesburg area. The circuit judge ordered Watts to depart from Hattiesburg, Mississippi within
forty-eight hours and to remain outside a radius of one hundred miles from the Forrest County
Courthouse in Hattiesburg for the entire period of his suspended sentence.
¶3.
On December 30, 2005, only one month after his guilty plea, Watts violated the terms of his
suspended sentence by being in Hattiesbu