Case Name: Sidney Howard GIPSON v. STATE of Arkansas
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1973-12-10
Citations: 255 Ark. 696
Docket Number: CR 73-127
Parties: Sidney Howard GIPSON v. STATE of Arkansas
Judges: 
Reporter: Arkansas Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 696–697

Head Matter:
Sidney Howard GIPSON v. STATE of Arkansas
CR 73-127
501 S.W. 2d 786
Opinion delivered December 10, 1973
Robert A. Newcomb, for appellant.
Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., by: Alston Jennings Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
Conley Byrd, Justice.
Appellant Sidney Howard Gipson was convicted by a jury of being an accessory to felony murder. At his trial he was represented by employed counsel, the Honorable Bon McCourtney. No appeal was taken from that conviction. Pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule No. 1, appellant filed a petition for post-conviction relief citing eight different reasons why he should be granted relief — among those reasons were that his attorney was inadequate and that he wanted to appeal his case but his attorney would not take the appeal because appellant did not have $2,700.
Upon appellant's allegation that he was a pauper, the trial court appointed the Honorable Sam Highsmith to represent him in the post conviction proceeding. Thereafter, the allegations of inadequacy of counsel and the failure of counsel to take an appeal were struck from the petition upon motion of appellant, and he was granted time to file an amended petition. The petition was then amended to allege only that the State suppressed evidence favorable to appellant. By stipulation and with the knowledge and approval of appellant that was the only issue before the court at the post-conviction hearing. To reverse the trial court's denial of post-conviction relief, appellant, now appearing by different counsel, contends:
"I. Appellant was denied effective assistance of counsel in presenting his Motion to Vacate Sentence Under Criminal Procedure Rule No. I as provided by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
II. Appellant did not make an intelligent waiver of the points raised in his pro se petition for post-conviction relief."
Since the contentions now made were not at issue in the trial court, the record obviously does not show any facts from which one could arrive at any conclusions. We have a long standing rule that we will not consider on appeal an issue not first raised in the trial court. For that reason we hold that the contentions now made are without merit.
Affirmed.