Hickey v. State

Petitioner George Hickey was found guilty by a jury of kidnapping, rape and robbery. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of ten and twenty years for kidnapping and rape and an additional term of ten years for robbery to be served consecutively to those terms. He appealed the kidnapping conviction only, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Hickey v. State, 14 Ark. App. 50, 684 S.W.2d 830 (1985). Petitioner now seeks permission to proceed in circuit court for postconviction relief pursuant to A.R.Cr.P. Rule 37 on the sole ground that he was denied effective assistance of counsel on appeal. He…