Adkins v. State

liln 2013, appellant Joseph Adkins entered guilty pleas to two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of theft of property, and residential burglary. 1 The trial court imposed an aggregate sentence of 360 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction, with an additional 120 months’ suspended. Adkins filed a petition for postconviction relief under Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 37.1 (2014) that the trial court dismissed for lack of verification. On appeal of that order, this court held that the verification attached to a separate but contemporaneously filed motion was…