Henry v. State

Petitioner Billy Gale Henry was found guilty by a jury of being an accomplice to capital murder and was sentenced to death. He was also found guilty of the offense of hindering apprehension or prosecution of another person and sentenced as a habitual offender to an additional term of 40 years imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. We affirmed both convictions but reduced the sentence for capital murder to life without parole. Henry v. State, 278 Ark. 478, 647 S.W.2d 419 (1983). Petitioner now seeks permission to proceed in circuit court for postconviction relief pursuant to…