James E. Smith, Petitioner v. State of Arkansas, Respondent

Summary

The court dismissed Smith’s second petition seeking permission to pursue coram-nobis relief because it repeated claims raised in his earlier petition and therefore constituted an abuse of the writ. The court held that Smith failed to establish a qualifying Brady violation, that sufficiency and credibility challenges were not cognizable in coram-nobis proceedings, and that ordinary trial-error claims could not support the writ. No separate opinions were filed.