McArty v. Payne (Majority)
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The Supreme Court affirmed the order of the circuit court denying and dismissing Appellant's petition for writ of habeas corpus, holding that Appellant failed to show that he was entitled to issuance of the writ.
Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed. Appellant later filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, asserting that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to sentence him in excess of the alleged mandatory maximum determinate of forty years' imprisonment for first-degree murder. The circuit court denied the writ. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that because Appellant was sentenced within the permitted statutory range for first-degree murder he failed to state a claim for issuance of the writ.
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