Opinion
A23A0476
10-25-2022
JONAH SANDERS v. THE STATE.
The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order:
In 2006, Jonah Sanders pled guilty to a 23-count indictment. The trial court subsequently vacated certain sentences, and Sanders was re-sentenced on May 9, 2019. In August 2019, Sanders filed a motion to modify his sentence, which he subsequently amended. Sanders also filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. On September 12, 2022, the trial court entered an order dismissing both motions. In Case No. A23A0475, Sanders appealed the order to the extent it denied his motion to modify his sentence; in Case No. A23A0476, Sanders appealed the order to the extent it denied his motion to withdraw his guilty plea. As both appeals are from the same order, Case No. A23A0476 is duplicative. Accordingly, the appeal in A23A0476 is hereby DISMISSED as superfluous. Sanders is DIRECTED to submit his filings under Case No. A23A0475.
Although the trial court titled its ruling as an "Order Denying Motion to Correct Void Sentence," we construe the motion according to its substance rather than its nomenclature. See State v. Singh, 291 Ga. 525, 526 (1) (731 S.E.2d 649) (2012).