Williams v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Desoto Williams was charged with four felonies alleged to have occurred in 1993. On January 10, 1994, Williams was convicted by jury on all four counts. On appeal, Williams’s sole argument is that, in sentencing him, the trial court erroneously employed Arkansas’s new bifurcated sentencing laws, Ark. Code Ann. §§ 5-4-103 (Repl. 1993) and 16-97-103 (Supp. 1993). Both of these statutes became effective January 1, 1994. Williams argues that, instead of using these new amendatory statutes, the trial court should have applied the sentencing laws that were in effect in 1993 —…