Doles v. State

Darrell Hickman, Justice.

This is the second appeal of this case. In Doles v. State, 275 Ark. 448, 631 S.W.2d 281 (1982), we ordered a retrial because the trial court had refused to instruct the jury on justification, commonly known as self-defense. Doles shot James “Sonny” Harris either in the doorway or on the front porch of the house where Doles and his father both lived in Amity, Arkansas, located in Pike County. At his first trial Doles was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment; the judgment was exactly the same in his second trial.

This time Doles argues…