Myron Anderson v. Dexter Payne

Summary

The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed the dismissal of Myron Anderson's habeas petition. Anderson argued that altered statutory language in the terroristic-act jury instructions deprived the trial court and prosecutor of authority and rendered his convictions invalid, but the court held that the claim alleged trial error and did not establish facial invalidity or a jurisdictional defect. The court also concluded that framing the claim as statutory interpretation amounted to an impermissible sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge.