Morgan v. Kelley

I tin 2003, appellant Joe E. Morgan entered a plea of guilty to rape and first-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to serve an aggregate term of sixty years’ imprisonment.

Morgan subsequently filed in the .trial court three petitions for writ of error, co-ram nobis — one in'2007 and two in 2011. The trial court denied the three petitions in one order, entered in 2012. One of the issues raised concerned the application of a habitual-offender statute to Morgan’s sentence — Arkansas Code Annotated section 5-4-501(c) (Repl.1997),. which, provided that he would not be…