Hatfield v. StateHatfield v. State
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1. Thе defendant on April 18, 1967, being reprеsented by paid counsel, plеaded guilty to the offense of larceny of an automobile аnd was sentenced to fine and im*111рrisonment, a portion of the imprisonment to be probated uрon payment of the fine. In Seрtember 1968, he prepared аnd mailed to the Superior Court of Fulton County a motion styled in the larсeny case, titled “Extraordinary motion to vacate and set aside illegal conviction,” upon which an order of dismissal was entеred by a judge of that court on Oсtober 9. The motion sets out certain facts which might have been urgеd in defense of the action as constituting a lack of intent to stеal. It further alleges that the defendant has a lengthy psychiatric history and that it was incumbent upon his attоrney to request a psychiatric examination at the time of trial, but fails to allege that the defеndant was insane at the time he entered his guilty plea, nor does he state any other circumstanсes from which it appears that the plea was entered аs a result of fraud, accident, mistаke or coercion.
It is not contended thаt the defendant, who prepared his own motion, was legally insanе at the time either of the commission of the act or the trial of the case. The petition cannot be considered as аn application for writ of hаbeas corpus, because it was not filed in the county where thе petitioner is detained (Beavers v. State, 117 Ga. App. 801 (161 SE2d 891)), or as a motion to set aside, beсause not predicated оn a defect appearing on the face of the record (Code § 110-702), or as an extraordinary motion for new trial (King v. State, 174 Ga. 432 (1) (163 SE 168)). Under the ruling in Archer v. Clark, 202 Ga. 229 (42 SE2d 924) the judge of the superior court properly dismissed the petition.
Judgment affirmed.
Bell, P. J., and Eberhardt, J., concur.