Morris v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant Calvin Morris apV peals his conviction for first-degree murder and his sentence to sixty years’ imprisonment. This court previously reversed and remanded Morris’s earlier conviction for first-degree murder and sentence to forty years’ imprisonment in Morris v. State, 351 Ark. 426, 94 S.W.3d 913 (2003) (Morris 1). His sole point on appeal in the instant case is that the circuit court erred in allowing the State to cross-examine him regarding a tattoo on his right shoulder, which read “Death Before Dishonor.” Morris argues that the probative value of such…