Hussey v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This appeal is a companion case to Harris v. State, 331 Ark. 353, 961 S.W.2d 737 (1998), where we upheld the capital-murder conviction of Derrick Harris for the shooting death of Jimmy Gathings, a Monticello used-car dealer. Harris’s sole point on appeal was that the State had presented testimony that was so conflicting that it was insufficient to sustain a jury verdict of guilty. We disagreed, and held that the trial court had correctly denied Harris’s directed-verdict motion based on the eyewitness testimony of Albert Lambert and Jerry Majors. Both men testified that they…