Garza v. State

John I. Purtle, Justice.

A verdict of guilty of first degree murder, Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1502(b) (Repl. 1977), was delivered by a jury in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and the appellant was sentenced to forty years in the Department of Correction. He makes two arguments on appeal. First, the state did not produce sufficient evidence from which the jury could have found that the appellant acted with the premeditated and deliberated purpose of causing his wife’s death. The second argument is that the court erred in refusing to grant a mistrial due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct during the…