Sawyer v. State

The pro se appellant, Clint Sawyer, was convicted of three counts of rape and three counts of burglary in 1983. He was sentenced to a total of sixty years’ imprisonment for the burglary convictions, which he is serving concurrently with three consecutive life sentences that he received on each of the rape convictions. We affirmed the judgment in Sawyer v. State, 284 Ark. 26, 678 S.W.2d 367 (1984). In this case, Sawyer is appealing an order of the Lincoln County Circuit Court that denies his petition for habeas corpus relief. We affirm.

A writ of habeas corpus will issue only if the commitment…