Bader v. State

RAY THORNTON, Justice.

Appellant, Steven Scott Bader, appeals the judgment of the Benton County Circuit Court, convicting him of murder in the first degree and sentencing him to forty years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Appellant raises three points for reversal: (1) the trial court erred in not allowing inquiry of the jury panel as to their religious denomination and the number of times that they attended a religious service each month, (2) the trial court erred in failing to find the Arkansas peremptory challenge statute, Ark. Code Ann. § 16-33-305 (Repl. 1999),…