Supreme Court of Arkansas

Rodney W. McClanton, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

October 23, 20142014 Ark. LEXIS 555

Summary

The court dismissed the appeal from the denial of a petition challenging a sentence imposed after revocation of a suspended sentence. It held that the ineffective-assistance claim was governed by the postconviction rule rather than the sentence-correction statute and was untimely, depriving the trial and appellate courts of jurisdiction. The court further held that the sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim did not establish an illegal sentence and therefore could not be raised through the sentence-correction procedure.