Lowry v. State

Donald L. Corbin, Justice.

Appellant Michael Lowry was convicted in the Saline County Circuit Court of one count of stalking in the first degree, one count of arson, and eleven counts of violating a protection order. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment on the stalking charge and ten years’ imprisonment on the arson charge, to be served consecutively, as well as one year in the county jail for each of the protection-order violations. Lowry appealed to the Arkansas Court of Appeals, which reversed on the grounds that the trial court erred (1) in denying his motion for continuance due…