Abernathy v. State

|! Appellant Routy Abernathy filed in the trial court a pro se petition under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2011), in which he sought postconviction relief from his 2009 convictions on two counts of rape. Appellant lodged this appeal of an order denying the petition and raises four points of asserted error in the trial court’s failing to find ineffective assistance of counsel. We find no reversible error and affirm.

The offenses at issue in appellant’s trial involved two girls, ten and eleven years old, who were daughters of his wife’s sister. The girls testified to incidents of…