Legal Opinion
Coulter v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided February 18, 1991No. CR 90-126PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
David Newbern, Justice.
Roger Lewis Coulter was convicted of capital murder. Ark. Code Ann. § 5-10-101 (Supp. 1989). It was alleged that he killed a five-year-old child during the course of, or in furtherance of, raping her. He was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to die by lethal injection. None of the seven points of appeal raised by Coulter warrants reversal of the conviction. As Coulter does not challenge generally the sufficiency of the evidence, we need not render a detailed statement of the facts.
Testimony disclosed that Coulter was living with the child and her mother. On the…
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