Brian F. Ward, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of coram-nobis relief on Ward's ineffective-assistance and guilty-plea-procedure claims because those allegations concerned matters that were not cognizable in a coram-nobis proceeding. It held that the judgment was facially illegal insofar as the imposed and suspended terms for second-degree sexual assault placed Ward under court jurisdiction for longer than the statutory maximum, requiring resentencing. It also upheld application of the habitual-offender parole statute to the sexual-assault sentence.