Dale v. State

WENDELL L. Griffen, Judge.

After trial in Garland County Circuit Court, a jury found Timothy Dale guilty of two counts of second-degree battery based on allegations that he burned his stepchildren with cigarettes and a cigarette lighter. The trial judge then sentenced Dale to six years in the Arkansas Department of Correction on each count and ordered that the sentences run consecutively. Dale now contends that the trial court erred when it denied his motion for directed verdict, and that it erred by refusing to instruct the jury on sentencing alternatives as his attorney had requested.…