Carter v. State

Jason Carter was convicted as an accomplice of first-degree murder, first-degree battery, and aggravated assault in connection with a shooting that occurred at the Harvest Foods parking lot in Sherwood on December 18, 1993. He was sentenced to concurrent sentences of sixty years, thirty years, and ten years, respectively. This court affirmed his conviction and sentence in Carter v. State, 324 Ark. 249, 921 S.W.2d 583 (1996). The case is again before us pursuant to Carter’s appeal of the circuit court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Arkansas Criminal Procedure…