Supreme Court of Arkansas
Travis v. State
February 20, 20142014 Ark. 82
Summary
The court denied Travis’s request to reinvest the circuit court with jurisdiction to consider coram-nobis relief and denied his alternative request to recall the appellate mandate. The alleged venue error was ordinary trial error that could have been raised at trial or on direct appeal, while the ineffective-assistance allegation was outside coram-nobis proceedings and properly belonged in a timely postconviction petition. The court also held that the asserted trial error and sentence length did not establish the extraordinary circumstances required to reopen the direct appeal.