Marshall v. State

Ray Thornton, Justice.

Appellant, Raymond Clinton Marshall, a habitual offender with a prior child-molestation conviction in another state, pleaded guilty to multiple child sexual-abuse charges in Arkansas, and following his conviction on those charges, a sentencing hearing was held to develop evidence of other factors, including aggravating and mitigating circumstances, relating to the imposition of sentences for these two new convictions. The issue in this case is whether appellant’s status as a fugitive from an indictment for sexual solicitation of a child in that other state could…