Long v. State

URBIGKIT, Justice.

This appeal again requires our consideration of an indigent’s right to counsel in a post-conviction-relief proceeding. We reverse and remand.

Considering it unlikely for this to be the last time this case will appear on appeal, a brief statement of facts should suffice. Appellant, Royal Russell Long, presents a post-conviction-relief petition under § 7-14-101, et seq., W.S.1977, following his guilty plea to charges of a 1984 kidnapping and apparent homicide of Sharon Baldea-gle, age 12, whose body has never been found, as well as sexual assault on another girl, age 15. Six…