Suggs v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This is appellant Willie Suggs’s second appeal. In his first, this court reversed his first degree murder conviction due to trial error and remanded the case for a new trial. Suggs v. State, 317 Ark. 541, 879 S.W.2d 428 (1994). Suggs was retried, and was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty years. He raises four points for reversal.

In his first argument, Suggs states that when he was originally tried and convicted in 1993, Arkansas law then authorized, and he received, a non-bifurcated trial. However, after his original conviction, but before his case…