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  "id": 1627478,
  "name": "James Arthur HOWERTON v. STATE of Arkansas",
  "name_abbreviation": "Howerton v. State",
  "decision_date": "1972-09-18",
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  "last_page": "84",
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      "cite": "252 Ark. 803",
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    "judges": [
      "Fogleman, J., not participating."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "James Arthur HOWERTON v. STATE of Arkansas"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Frank Holt, Justice.\nThis appeal comes from the trial court\u2019s denial of appellant\u2019s Petition for a Writ of Error Coram Nobis by which appellant seeks to set aside a one-year penitentiary sentence imposed by a jury in 1969 based upon a charge of grand larceny. He never appealed his sentence. After serving six months, appellant was released upon parole. For reversal of the trial court\u2019s order, he now contends that the court erred when it admitted appellant\u2019s entire confession in evidence over his objection.\nThis same contention was presented by appellant in the recently related case of Howerton v. State, 252 Ark. 803, 481 S.W. 2d 698. In considering the admissibility of this identical confession, there we said that if the confession was in fact inadmissible then the remedy was by appeal and not by a belated collateral attack upon the judgment. Furthermore, we observed that due to passage of time the question of admissibility of his confession is actually moot, inasmuch as there is presently no possibility that appellant could ever be required to serve the six months balance of his sentence. In the case at bar, it follows that we find no merit in appellant\u2019s renewed assertion.\nThe appellant next asserts that the trial court\u2019s actions and attitudes during the trial impeded the defense by appellant\u2019s court appointed counsel. The remedy, as in Howerton v. State, supra, to correct this alleged error was by direct appeal rather than this belated collateral attack to expunge the approximately three year old sentence.\nAffirmed.\nFogleman, J., not participating.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Frank Holt, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Thomas B. Tinnon, John T. Lavey, Bart G. Mull\u00eds, Eudox Patterson and Oscar Fendler, for appellant.",
      "Ray Thornton, Atty. Gen., by: James A. Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "James Arthur HOWERTON v. STATE of Arkansas\n5750\n484 S.W. 2d 514\nOpinion delivered September 18, 1972\nThomas B. Tinnon, John T. Lavey, Bart G. Mull\u00eds, Eudox Patterson and Oscar Fendler, for appellant.\nRay Thornton, Atty. Gen., by: James A. Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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