Williams v. State

|TIn 2014, petitioner Fred L. Williams was found guilty of murder in the first degree and abuse of a corpse for which an aggregate sentence of life imprisonment was imposed. Williams was sentenced as a habitual offender. We affirmed. Williams v. State, 2015 Ark. 316, 468 S.W.3d 776, reh’g denied (Oct. 29, 2015).

Now before us is Williams’s pro se petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the case. The petition for leave to proceed in the trial court is necessary because the trial court can entertain a petition for writ of error…