Williams v. State

Supplemental Opinion on Denial of Rehearing delivered February 13, 1984

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant’s petition for rehearing insists that our opinion of December 13,1983, (Williams v. State, 281 Ark. 91, 663 S.W.2d 700 (1983) erred in two respects: in assuming that it was the appellant, and not the state, who proposed a lesser charge in exchange for his confession and in disregarding the law that a confession obtained by a promise of reward may not be used against a defendant. But we adhere to our position on both counts because the record shows unmistakably that it was the appellant who…