Grissom v. State

|TIn 2008, appellant Wesley Elisha Gris-som entered a plea of guilty in the Garland County Circuit Court to first-degree sexual assault and was sentenced to 660 months’ imprisonment. On May 2, 2016, Grissom filed in the trial court a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Arkansas Code Annotated sections 16-112-101 to -123 (Repl. 2006), seeking release from custody. At the time he filed the habeas petition in Garland County, Grissom was incarcerated at a unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction located in Jackson County. The habeas petition was denied, and Grissom brings…