Ray v. Kelley (Majority)
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The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant's appeal from an order denying his pro se petition for permission to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, holding that the circuit court had no jurisdiction to consider the petition.
Appellant entered negotiated guilty pleas to rape and other offenses. Appellant later filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the Chicot County Circuit Court, the court where he was incarcerated, setting out two grounds for coram nobis relief. The circuit court denied the petition. The Supreme Court dismissed Appellant's appeal, holding that jurisdiction lay in the trial court where Appellant was convicted, which in this case was the Ashley County Circuit Court. Therefore, the Chicot County Circuit Court was without jurisdiction to address Appellant's coram nobis petition.
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