Wallace v. State

Richard L. Mays, Justice.

Appellant, Charles Lewis Wallace, was found guilty by a jury of kidnapping and capital murder and sentenced to fifteen years and life imprisonment without parole. Several points for reversal are argued, none of which we find to have merit.

On September 4, 1977, appellant and three co-defendants, two of whom testified against him at trial, accosted Calvin Smith on the parking lot of a Little Rock restaurant and forcefully removed him to the bank of the Arkansas River where he was drowned. Appellant was arrested seven days later on September 11, 1977, and remained in…