Supreme Court of Arkansas

Burgie v. State

March 31, 20162016 Ark. 144

Summary

The court dismissed Burgie's appeal from the denial of his petition to correct an illegal sentence and declared his motions moot. It held that aggravated robbery could support a capital-murder charge even though it was not separately enumerated as an underlying felony when Burgie committed the offenses, and that the later statutory amendment did not render his sentence an impermissible ex post facto application. The court concluded that Burgie had not shown that his sentence was illegal on its face.