Williams v. State

John I. Purtle, Justice.

The appellant was charged and convicted of first degree murder pursuant to Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1502 (Repl. 1977) (Ark. Code Ann. § 5-10-102 (1987)) and sentenced to forty years imprisonment. For appeal he argues: (1) the insufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction for first degree murder and (2) that the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct. Although we find the conduct on the part of the prosecutor to be unprofessional and below the standards expected of a state’s attorney, we find such misconduct did not…