Tipton v. State

W.H. “Dub” Arnold, Chief Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of the Pulaski County Circuit Court, Fourth Division, denying appellant Shelby John Tipton’s double-jeopardy-based motion to dismiss his second-degree battery charge. We affirm the trial court’s order.

On February 25, 1996, a fight broke out at B. J.’s Star Studded Honky Tonk in Little Rock during which the appellant allegedly struck Bradley Wood in the head with a beer bottle, crushing bones in his face. Thereafter, on May 20, 1996, the appellant was charged by felony information with second-degree battery. His…