The appellant was convicted of numerous offenses in Dooly County Superior Court in 1983. The convictions and sentences were affirmed on direct appeal the next year.
Saleem v. State,
In the present case, the appellant asks us to review the Dooly County Superior Court’s denial of the appellant’s petition for writ of mandamus. In that petition, the appellant challenged the legality of the life sentences imposed following his convictions for armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury.
A petition for writ of mandamus is not the proper vehicle for obtaining post-appeal review of sentences imposed by a state court. “Mandamus is a remedy designed to compel the doing of ministerial acts[,]”
Speedway Grading Corp. v. Barrow,
Moreover, “for persons whose liberty is being restrained by vir tue of a sentence imposed against them by a state court of record,’ OCGA § 9-14-41, the exclusive means for seeking review of that sen tence, after review by the sentence review panel and after direct ap peal, is through a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under the pro cedures set forth in OCGA § 9-14-40 et seq.; OCGA § 9-14-41 Accordingly, we find that the issues raised by the appellant are proce durally barred, and the order and judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.