Beulah v. State

101 S.W.3d 802 (2003)

Lonnie BEULAH

v.

STATE of Arkansas.

No. CR 02-704.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

April 3, 2003.

Jeff Rosenzweig, for appellant.

Mark Pryor, Att'y Gen., by David R. Raupp, Sr. Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.

Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC, by Leon Holmes, for amicus curiae Arkansas Right to Life.

Appellant was charged with capital murder in the death of Heaven Pace, a fetus in its ninth month of gestation, and battery of the mother, Shiwona Pace. Appellant was charged under Act 1273 of 1999, the Arkansas Fetal Protection Act, which redefines "person" for purposes of the…