Wiley v. State

Defendant, Earthia B. Wiley, (Wiley), seeks review of an order dismissing his petition for postconviction relief on a 1959 second-degree robbery conviction. This case has an extensive procedural history including a disposition on direct appeal by this court1 of many of the issues Wiley now seeks to review in a postconviction proceeding. During these extensive proceedings, Wiley sometimes appeared pro se, but had the assistance of counsel at his original trial and in this postconviction proceeding.

Wiley was sentenced on March 11, 1959, to an indeterminate term of 2 to 15 years and committed to…