Nelson v. State

In a bench trial, Stanley Isaac Nelson was found guilty of one count of unlawful discharge of a firearm and sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Nelson appealed and the court of appeals affirmed in an unpublished decision. Nelson v. State, CACR 02-867 (Ark. App. May 7, 2003). Nelson filed a timely petition for postconviction relief under Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. The trial court held a hearing on the petition and subsequently denied the petition by written order entered December 23, 2003. Nelson now brings this appeal of that order.

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