Legal Opinion

Magar v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided February 24, 1992No. CR 91-277PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

On October 1, 1990, the appellant, Dewey Magar, was convicted of three counts of sexual abuse in the first degree and sentenced to three years for the first count and five years apiece for the remaining two counts, all sentences to run concurrently.

Magar asserts three points of error on appeal: 1) the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress religiously privileged testimony under Ark. R. Evid. 505, 2) the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict in that the State’s evidence was insufficient to sustain his convictions, 3) the trial…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Trammel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  2. State v. SypultSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1990
  3. Burger v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
  4. Hodge v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1990
  5. Cook v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1987

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. State v. GuthrieSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 2001
  2. Greene v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1994
  3. Edwards v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
  4. State v. MartinWashington Supreme Court · 1999
  5. State v. MartinWashington Supreme Court · 1999

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