Smith v. State

OPINION

BRYNER, Chief Judge.

Arthur Lee Smith was charged by indictment with two counts of rape, in violation of former AS 11.15.120(a)(1). He was convicted of one count by a jury and thereafter entered a plea of no contest to the other count. Superior Court Judge Victor D. Carlson sentenced Smith to two concurrent fifteen-year terms. Smith appealed this sentence, and we affirmed in Smith v. State, 691 P.2d 293 (Alaska App.1984).

While Smith’s sentence appeal was pending, he filed an application for post-conviction relief in the superior court, seeking reversal of the conviction on the count for…