Jones v. State

W.H. “Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice.

The appellants, Corey Jones, Chantez McGhee, and Dale Marcus Shaffer, were charged by amended felony information in Sebastian County Circuit Court with second-degree battery for the September 27, 1996, beating of a night watchman while attempting to escape from Ouachita Wilderness Institute, a juvenile-detention facility. The State sought enhancement of the battery charges under Ark. Code Ann. § 5-74-108 (Repl. 1997), which amplifies the felony classification and sentence-penalty range of a person convicted of a “crime of violence” while acting in concert with…