Wyles v. State

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

A jury convicted Appellant Robert Wyles of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Lisa Wyles, and sentenced him to twenty years in prison. We take jurisdiction of this appeal pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. l-2(a)(7) (2006), as this is Wyles’s second appeal. We reversed his first conviction of first-degree murder and remanded the case for retrial, holding that the circuit court erred in refusing Wyles’s proffered jury instructions on the lesser-included offenses of second-degree murder and manslaughter. See Wyles v. State, 357 Ark. 530, 182 S.W.3d 142…