State v. Short

ROBERT L. BROWN, Justice.

|, The State appeals the grant of a new trial to appellee Mikel Short on grounds that Arkansas law was not violated by the failure to pose a juror’s question to the judge in open court. We disagree that this is an appropriate issue for a State appeal, and we dismiss.

On February 26, 2009, Mikel Short was convicted by a Baxter County jury of possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, and was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Circuit Judge John Putman presided over the trial. After the sentence, Short’s attorney…