Benton v. State

DOUG MARTIN, Judge.

h An Arkansas County jury found appellant Gary Benton guilty of second-degree forgery and theft by receiving, and he was sentenced as a habitual offender to serve thirty years’ imprisonment on each count, with those sentences running consecutively. Benton raises the following arguments on appeal: (1) there was insufficient corroboration through accomplice testimony to support his conviction for second-degree forgery, and (2) there was insufficient evidence to support his theft-by-receiving conviction. We affirm.

The State charged Benton with second-degree forgery with…