Wesley v. Kelley

| tin 1993, appellant Eugene Wesley was convicted of aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and theft for which he received sentences of life, twenty years’, and ten years’ imprisonment, respectively. The kidnapping sentence was ordered to run consecutively to the life sentence. His convictions and sentences were affirmed by this court. Wesley v. State, 318 Ark. 83, 883 S.W.2d 478 (1994). The mandate issued on October 14, 1994.

Wesley subsequently filed in the trial court a pro se petition pursuant to Rule 37.1 of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure (1993), which was denied by the trial court.…