Phillips v. State

hOn October 30, 2013, a Jefferson County jury convicted Lester Phillips of murder in the second degree, and he was sentenced as a habitual offender to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Phillips’s sole argument on appeal is that the circuit court abused its discretion when it denied his timely motion for mistrial. 1 For the following reasons, we affirm.

Evidence presented at trial reflected that on June 12, 2012, Mark Sykes and Lester Phillips went to LeRoy Collins’s home to purchase drugs. Phillips stayed at Collins’s home while Collins and Sykes went to buy drugs. While…