Wells v. State

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Appellant is an inmate of the Arkansas penitentiary and by tbis proceeding questions the ruling of the Lincoln County Circuit Court wherein appellant’s prayer under a habeas, corpus proceeding was denied.

Wells received a five year sentence in the Cross County Circuit Court in 1956. A fellow inmate at the penitentiary was killed in 1957 and appellant was' charged in the Lincoln County Circuit Court with murder. He entered a plea of guilty to second degree murder on August 3, 1957, and received a sentence of 21 years to run consecutively with the previous sentence.

In October…