Freeman v. State

Ray Thornton, Justice.

On December 13, 1995, appellant Steven Lynn Freeman was charged with raping Brandi Galley on or about September 15, 1995. Freeman waived his right to a jury trial. After a July 8, 1996 bench trial, he was convicted of rape, a Class-Y felony. Freeman failed to appear for sentencing on four separate occasions. He was finally sentenced on February 18, 1997, to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction for the rape conviction. The trial court ordered this sentence to run concurrently with sentences imposed for prior hot-check convictions and the failure to appear…