Stearns v. State

1 ¶ A Pulaski County jury convicted appellant Melissa, Stearns of first-degree murder in the January 24, 2014 stabbing death of Herschel Johnson. She was sentenced to thirty-five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Stearns’s sole argument on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting her conviction. We affirm.

Jimmy James testified that on the day of the stabbing, he was at the mobile home where Stearns had been living with Johnson. He explained that Stearns and Johnson had been arguing and that they had asked him to take Stearns to the store, which he did. Upon…