Wells v. State

[[Appellant Willie Wells filed a pro se petition for writ of certiorari in a case in the Arkansas Court of Appeals, CR-16-298, which is his ongoing direct appeal of a judgment reflecting Wells’s conviction on a drug possession charge. In the petition, Wells sought review of the trial court’s decision to deny a motion for an appeal bond and remand with directions for the trial court to set a bond. This court accepted certification of the petition from the court of appeals. A writ of certiorari is the appropriate vehicle for relief in bail proceedings. Meeks v. State, 341 Ark. 620, 19 S.W.3d 25…