Carter v. State

Tom Glaze, Judge.

This appeal arises from the appellants’ convictions of third degree battery, for which Carter was sentenced to sixty days and Thompson to one hundred twenty days in the Pulaski County jail. Appellants rely upon one point for reversal: that the trial court erred in not finding appellants justified in resisting an unlawful intrusion into their home and an attack upon their persons by police officers.

According to testimony at trial, three Little Rock police officers went to appellant Carter’s home on the morning of May 24, 1982, looking for her son, who was suspected of a crime.…