Vanoven v. State

LARRY D. VAUGHT, Chief Judge.

| ]A Woodruff County jury convicted Waylon VanOven of rape and sentenced him to serve twelve years’ imprisonment. VanOven appeals his conviction arguing that (1) he was convicted of a crime for which he was not charged, which resulted in an illegal sentence; (2) the trial court abused its discretion in excluding from evidence testimony that three of the State’s witnesses had received plea agreements in another related criminal matter; and (3) his trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to preserve important issues that would have required the reversal of…