Bell v. State

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This is a Rule 1 case. Appellant, Jack R. Bell, Sr., was convicted in April 1966, of first degree murder. There was no appeal. His present petition for release alleges certain constitutional rights to have been violated. That petition was denied and Bell appeals.

In 1964 Bell, while on parole from the Arkansas penitentiary, went to Florida. A parole violation warrant was issued for his return. He was taken into custody in Florida and waived extradition to Arkansas as a parole violator. At that time Bell was also under suspicion of having committed a murder in Monroe County,…