Morgan v. State
Annotate this CaseAppellant entered a plea of guilty to first-degree murder and received a life sentence. Appellant subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief. At the time of Appellant's conviction, Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.2(c) required that a petition claiming relief must be filed within three years of the date of commitment unless the ground for relief would render the judgment absolutely void. The circuit court denied Appellant's petition on procedural grounds as the petition was not filed within the requisite three years, and on substantive grounds as the allegations were insufficient to void the conviction. Appellant appealed, contending that the three-year period did not control because his conviction was void as a matter of law. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Appellant's claims were not sufficient to render his conviction absolutely void, and thus his petition, which was filed well beyond the three-year limit rule, was untimely filed.
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