Leaks v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Bruce Edward Leaks of first-degree murder in the January 7, 1997, shooting death of William Earl Littlejohn, and sentenced him to forty-five years in prison. We take jurisdiction of this appeal pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 1-2(a)(7), as this is Leaks’s second appeal. We reversed his earlier conviction in Leaks v. State, 339 Ark. 348, 5 S.W.3d 448 (1999), on the basis of the prosecutor’s improper and prejudicial closing argument. As his sole point for reversal in this appeal, Leaks contends that there was insufficient evidence to support the guilty…