Cotton v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

On September 9,1969, a jury found appellant, Seymore Cotton, guilty of burglary and fixed his sentence at five years. He did not appeal. On January 29, 1987, over seventeen years after his conviction, appellant filed a petition for post-conviction relief. A.R.Cr.P. Rule 37. He alleged that his conviction should be set aside because of insufficient evidence. The trial court denied the petition on the basis of the three year statute of limitation contained in A.R.Cr.P. Rule 37.2. We affirm the holding.

This Court has repeatedly stated that attacks on the sufficiency of…