Heffernan v. State

| petitioner Robert R. Heffernan, also known as Robert Richard Heffernan, was convicted by a jury of capital felony murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in the Arkansas Department of Correction. This court affirmed. Heffernan v. State, 278 Ark. 325, 645 S.W.2d 666 (1983). Now before this court is Heffernan’s pro se second petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis. 1

The petition for leave to proceed in the trial court is necessary because the trial court can entertain a petition for writ of error coram nobis…