Jaynes v. State

Andree Layton Roaf, Judge.

Randy Jaynes appeals his conviction in a jury trial of first-degree sexual abuse, for which he received a three-year sentence in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal he argues: 1) his second trial constituted double jeopardy because the trial court erred in granting the State’s request for a mistrial during his defense counsel’s opening statement in the first trial because there was no overruling necessity to do so; and 2) the trial court erred in preventing him from introducing evidence that would prove that the complaining witness had fabricated earlier…