Mitchell v. State

_jjln 1992, petitioner Denver Mitchell, Jr., was found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder in the beating death of Willard Williamson and sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirmed. Mitchell v. State, 314 Ark. 343, 862 S.W.2d 254 (1993).

On February 21, 2017, Mitchell filed in this court a pro se petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the case and motions for appointment of counsel and to proceed in forma pauperis. He subsequently filed a second motion seeking appointment of counsel and for leave to file a supplemental…