Haynes v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant James K. Haynes was convicted of raping and burglarizing a ninety-four-year-old woman in Fort Smith; he was sentenced to life imprisonment on the rape conviction, and forty years on the burglary. On appeal, he argues that there was insufficient evidence to support his convictions, and that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress DNA evidence.

For his first point on appeal, Haynes argues that there was no direct evidence that he committed the crimes for which he was convicted. He insists that the evidence arrayed against him was purely…