LINCOLN v. STATE

No. CR77-179.

558 S.W.2d 146 (1977)

Billy J. LINCOLN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Arkansas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Arkansas, In Banc.

December 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don R. Langston, Fort Smith, for appellant.

Bill Clinton, Atty. Gen., by Joseph H. Purvis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

Billy J. Lincoln, an inmate in the Department of Correction, filed in this court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, asking for his release from custody on the ground that a circuit court order revoking an earlier suspended sentence is void. We treat the petition as one for a writ of certiorari to review an assertedly void order. On the basis of the entire record of the proceedings in the circuit court we find the order of revocation...

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