Mays v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

On October 9, 1989, the appellant, James Felton Mays, was convicted of delivery of cocaine and sentenced to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Mays filed a timely letter with the trial court alleging ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. A new counsel was appointed for Mays, and a hearing was held on November 15, 1989. See Ark. R. Crim. P. 36.4.

Mays’s allegations were treated as a motion for new trial, which was subsequently denied. Mays now asserts three points of error on appeal: 1) that the trial court erred in its decision that he had…