Bruner v. State

COURTNEY HUDSON GOODSON, Justice.

1A jury in the Sebastian County Circuit Court found appellants Rickey Bruner, Sr., and Melissa Workman guilty of committing first-degree battery against their son, R.B., a violation of Arkansas Code Annotated section 5-13-201(a)(9) (Supp.2011), and a class Y felony. Ark.Code Ann. § 5-13-201(c)(2). As a consequence, the jury fixed Bruner’s sentence at a term of forty years in prison, and Workman received a sentence of life imprisonment. In this joint appeal, appellants are represented by different counsel who have filed separate briefs on their behalf. However,…