Sparkman v. State

DONALD L. CORBIN, Justice.

Appellant Robert Lee Spark-man was convicted of the rape of a four-year-old girl and received a sentence of 216 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. This conviction was affirmed by the court of appeals in Sparkman v. State, 91 Ark. App. 138, 208 S.W.3d 822 (2005) (Sparkman I). Subsequendy, Appellant timely filed a petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1, which the Benton County Circuit Court denied. Appellant has lodged an appeal here from that order. On appeal, he argues that the circuit court erred when it…