Lincoln v. State

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

In Billy Joe Lincoln’s second appeal from his conviction for attempted first degree murder, he raises two procedural questions: one concerning an amendment to the charges, the other about the validity of the evidence of a prior conviction. Lincoln’s first conviction was reversed by the court of appeals in Lincoln v. State, 12 Ark. App. 46, 670 S.W.2d 819 (1984). Before the first trial, the trial court refused the state’s request to amend the information to allege prior convictions because it had been filed “too close to trial for the defense to be prepared.” This…