Henderson v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant has been tried three times for the capital murder of Willa Dean O’Neal. Appellant’s first trial ended in a mistrial. In the second trial, he was convicted of capital murder and received the death penalty. We affirmed his conviction and death penalty sentence in Henderson v. State, 279 Ark. 414, 652 S.W.2d 26 (1983). Appellant then sought and received a writ of habeas corpus from the federal court. Henderson v. Sargent, 926 F.2d 706 (8th Cir. 1991). The state retried the appellant, and he was again convicted of capital murder and received the death penalty.…