Franklin v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Petitioner was found guilty of rape and sentenced as a habitual offender to 300 years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed. Thereafter, Petitioner filed a pro se petition for postconviction relief under Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. The trial court denied the petition on the ground that it was not timely filed. Petitioner’s appeal was dismissed. Now before the Supreme Court was Petitioner’s pro se petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis. The Supreme Court denied the petition, holding that Petitioner failed to state a ground for the writ.
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