Milton v. State

Olly Neal, Judge.

Frankie Milton takes this appeal from his first-degree murder conviction which was entered after a bench trial in the Mississippi County Circuit Court. Milton contends that two of the three confessions he made to the Blytheville Police Department were erroneously admitted at his trial, and, therefore, reversal of his conviction is required. We agree with appellant and, accordingly, reverse the conviction.

Milton was initially arrested on July 12, 1994, eight days after police found the body of a woman named Lisa Thomas in a burned-out residence in Blytheville. The victim had…