Norris v. State

PATTERSON, Judge.

Jesse Norris filed a A.R.Cr.P.Temp. 20 petition contesting the validity of his 1966 convictions for grand larceny and robbery pursuant to which he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of ten years and for a term of one year and a day. (It is not specified which sentence applied to which conviction.) Norris’s convictions were based on his pleas of guilty. The trial court dismissed Norris’s Rule 20 petition without an evidentiary hearing, on its findings that Norris’s petition is without merit, is successive (Rule 20.2(b)), and is precluded by the applicable statute of…