Burton v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Following a bench trial, appellant Willie Burton was convicted of aggravated assault and felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm. He was sentenced to a term of ten years with five suspended on the first charge and to a ten-year suspended sentence on the second charge. His two points on appeal concern the validity of his waiver of a jury trial and the admissibility of evidence relating to a previous conviction for forgery and to prior bad acts. The case was certified to this court by the Arkansas Court of Appeals because of the jury-trial issue. We affirm the trial court’s…