Leggett v. State

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

This is another chapter in the litigation involving Emmett Earl Leggett, convicted in the Pulaski Circuit Court in 1956 for the murder of Joe King, and sentenced to death.

The judgment in the murder case was affirmed by this Court on February 18, 1957. See Leggett v. State, 227 Ark. 393, 299 S. W. 2d 59, and hereinafter referred to as the “first case”. Leggett later filed in the Pulaski Circuit Court a proceeding under the then existing Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act (being Act No. 419 of 1957 and found in § 43-3101 Ark. Stats.).1 That proceeding was…