Smith v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant Dennis Smith was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Desha County jury on December 18, 2001. The aggravated robbery was the first event in a crime spree that took place on June 22, 2000, when Smith, armed with a handgun, entered a grocery store in the town of Reed in Desha County and demanded money from the owner, George Barnes. At gunpoint, Smith took Barnes’s money bag, and then Smith told Barnes to hand over the keys to his truck. Barnes kept the truck keys, and Smith, still pointing the gun at Barnes, told Barnes to get in…