Henry v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
John I. Purtle, Justice.
Appellant was convicted as an accomplice to capital murder, hindering apprehension or prosecution and of being an habitual offender. He was sentenced to death for felony murder and to 40 years imprisonment for hindering apprehension or prosecution. On appeal appellant argues 14 points; they will be set out in the body of this opinion. We do not find any prejudicial error but by comparing we reduce appellant’s death sentence to life without parole.
The appellant and Rodney Britton were together on the date the West Fork Chief of Police was killed. Britton had spent a few…
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