Hunstein, Justice.Ashleigh Ricks appeals the denial of her 2017 motion for an out-of-time appeal from her guilty-plea conviction for felony murder in Baldwin County, and we reverse, concluding that the trial court was without jurisdiction to decide the motion.In May 2012, Ricks pled guilty to felony murder and received a life sentence. Shortly thereafter, Ricks, acting pro se, began to file a stream of pleadings, including a “motion to appeal,” a motion for the reduction of sentence, a motion for new trial, and a motion for a change of venue. In October 2012, the trial court conducted a hearing – at which Ricks was represented by counsel – and orally denied the various pending motions; the trial court memorialized its ruling in an order filed in November 2012. On October 23, 2012, between the date of the hearing and the filing of the written order, Ricks’ motion-hearing counsel filed a notice of appeal from the denial of Ricks’ motions. For reasons not explained in the record, there is no indication that the notice of appeal or record was transmitted to the appropriate court, and there is also no indication in the record that the appeal was ever withdrawn or dismissed. Undeterred by the denial of her first round of motions, Ricks continued her prolific filing and, in April 2017, filed a motion for an out-of-time appeal; that motion was denied just days after it was filed, and Ricks filed a timely notice of appeal to this Court challenging that ruling.Although Ricks’ 2012 notice of appeal was never properly docketed, the appeal remains pending, see Scroggins v. State, 288 Ga. 346, 347 (703 SE2d 622) (2010), and the pending appeal acts as a supersedeas, depriving the trial court of “‘the power to affect the judgment appealed.’” (Citation omitted.) Id. Because Ricks’ 2017 motion for an out-of-time appeal challenges the same judgment of conviction challenged in the still-pending 2012 notice of appeal, the trial court lacked jurisdiction to consider the motion, and its ruling is a mere nullity. See Wetherington v. State, 295 Ga. 172, 173 (758 SE2d 299) (2014). While in the past we have reversed the trial court under these circumstances, see, e.g., Wetherington and Scroggins, supra, we conclude that the correct judgment is to vacate the void order.[1] See, e.g., Rollins v. Rollins, 300 Ga. 485, 488-489 (796 SE2d 721) (2017); Massey v. Massey, 294 Ga. 163, 166 (3) (751 SE2d 330) (2013). Accordingly, in light of the still-pending 2012 notice of appeal, we vacate the trial court’s April 2017 order denying Appellant’s motion for an out-of-time appeal.[2]Judgment vacated. All the Justices concur.
