Findley v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Robert Findley appeals from his capital felony murder conviction resulting in a sentence of life without parole. We find merit in one of the assignments of error and, accordingly, the case is reversed and remanded.

In March, 198 8, the Trumann, Arkansas Police Department began an investigation into the disappearance of David Phillips. Phillips had withdrawn $1,800 in cash from his savings account on Wednesday, March 2. Phillips told co-workers on the night shift at the plant where he worked that he had given $1,700 in cash to Robert Findley to buy a 1987 Tempo automobile…