Grooms v. State

John I. Purtle, Justice.

Appellant was tried before a jury as an habitual offender on a charge of theft by receiving and was sentenced to 20 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction and fined the sum of $10,000. After giving notice of appeal the attorney for appellant dismissed the appeal by and with the expressed consent of the appellant. Subsequently the present counsel initiated a timely Rule 37 hearing wherein it was alleged that the statute pursuant to which appellant was tried is unconstitutional; that the court erred in trial procedure; that appellant did not knowingly and…