Avants v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

While on parole from a felony conviction, appellant pled guilty in 1981 to aggravated robbery and criminal attempt rape. He was sentenced to twenty years on each offense. The sentences were ordered to run concurrently with each other and with the balance of the previous sentence.

In 1986 appellant filed a petition to correct the judgment, claiming the running of the new sentences concurrently with the old sentence was a violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 43-2829(D) (Repl. 1977). That statute provides that when a person is convicted of a felony committed while on parole from an…