Pigg v. State

|,In 2013, appellant Earl Delmar Pigg was found guilty of eleven counts of rape of a victim who was less than fourteen years of age and one count of interference with custody. Pigg received consecutive life sentences for all eleven counts of rape and an additional term of 120 months’ imprisonment, also to be served consecutively to the life sentences, for the interference charge. This court affirmed the judgment. Pigg v. State, 2014 Ark. 433, 444 S.W.3d 863. Pigg filed in the trial court a petition for postconviction relief under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2015). Following an…