Pafford v. State

bA Hempstead County jury convicted appellant James Pafford of two counts of rape and two counts of sexual assault in the second degree. Pafford was sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction on each rape conviction, to run consecutively to each other, and five years’ imprisonment on each sexual-assault conviction, to run concurrently with the rape convictions. Pafford timely filed a motion for new trial, and the circuit court denied the motion by order. From that order, Pafford appeals.1 We affirm.

|2A. Facts and Procedural History

Pafford sexually…