Hughes v. State

D ONALD L. CORBIN, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars conviction of a lesser-included offense following a directed verdict on the greater offense, during the same proceeding. The Arkansas Court of Appeals concluded that such a conviction was barred, and it reversed Appellant Robert Hughes’s conviction of attempted manufacture of methamphetamine. See Hughes v. State, 74 Ark. App. 126, 46 S.W.3d 538 (2001). The State filed a petition for review of the court of appeals’s decision, and we granted it, pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. l-2(e). When we grant review…