Maxwell v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The appellant, Ernest Maxwell, Jr., was found guilty of the first degree murder of Carol Conn and was sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirm. An earlier conviction for the same offense was reversed by this Court in Maxwell, Jr. v. State, 279 ark. 423, 652 S.W.2d 31 (1983). Jurisdiction of this subsequent appeal of a life sentence is in this Court under Rules 29( 1) (b) and (j).

On the morning of June 25, 1981, the badly battered body of Carol Conn, age 20, clothed in a T-shirt, blue jeans, and tennis shoes, was found near the Plummerville exit from Interstate 40,…