Johnson v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant Perry Eugene Johnson brings this appeal from the jury’s convictions of possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. He was given consecutive fifteen-year sentences, totalling thirty years’ imprisonment. He argues seven points for reversal, including ones involving the interpretation and constitutionality of Arkansas’s simultaneous-possession statute, Ark. Code Ann. § 5-74-106 (Repl. 1997). We accept jurisdiction of this appeal under Supreme Court Rule provisions 1 — 2(b)(1), (3), and (5).

Because this…