Allen v. State

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

Appellant Dennis Ray Allen was convicted by a Lonoke County jury of four counts of rape and four counts of second-degree sexual assault in connection with the alleged abuse of four of his minor step-grandchildren. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction on each of the rape convictions and to twenty years’ imprisonment on each of the sexual-assault convictions, totaling four life sentences plus eighty years. The circuit court accepted the jury’s recommendation that the sentences be served consecutively. Allen now appeals,…