Puckett v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant David Ricky Puckett appeals a judgment against him for rape and a sentence of 40 years. He raises multiple issues, including insufficiency of the evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, and various rulings of the trial court which he contends prejudiced his case. We hold that no reversible error transpired, and we affirm the judgment.

Nina Graves, age seventy, was a widow who lived in Fort Smith. Around October 1, 1994, she was at the home of Mary Frances Dixon, who was a friend, and she saw Puckett. Graves had met Puckett through Dixon several months earlier.…