Turner v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant Robert C. Turner files this appeal from his convictions of burglary and attempted rape and respective consecutive sentences of twenty-year terms. His sole point for reversal is that the trial court should have granted him a continuance on the day of trial because a mental examination report had not yet been filed with the court as required by Ark. Code Ann. § 5-2-305(f) (Supp. 1995).

Briefly, we mention the facts leading to Turner’s arrest. On the morning of November 19, 1994, Mary L. Byrd heard a window break in her dining room, and upon investigation, she went…