Newman v. State

JIM HANNAH, Chief Justice.

|, Petitioner Rickey Dale Newman petitions this court to reinvest jurisdiction in the circuit court to allow him to seek a writ of error coram nobis. He offers two grounds for which he claims the writ is warranted: (1) that he was incompetent at the time of trial, and (2) that the prosecutor withheld material exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). We grant the petition.

Newman was convicted in Crawford County Circuit Court of capital murder and sentenced to death. He attempted to waive a direct appeal…