Stewart v. State

W. H.“Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Asa D. Stewart, was found guilty of aggravated robbery and first-degree murder in connection with the death of Russell Hinkle at a rest stop outside Blytheville, Arkansas. Stewart was sentenced to consecutive terms of twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction for the murder conviction and forty years’ imprisonment for the robbery offense. In the first appeal of this matter to the Arkansas Court of Appeals, Stewart challenged (1) the trial court’s decision permitting the State to amend the felony information two days…