Heffernan v. State

Frank Holt, Justice.

A jury convicted appellant of capital felonymurder [Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1501 (1) (a) (Repl. 1977)] and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment without parole. The state adduced evidence that the victim, a fourteen year old girl, was abducted from a laundromat in Benton, Arkansas, raped and shot four times on February 3, 1980. The body was discovered the next day near Benton. The appellant, along with a man named Joseph Michael Breault and two women, all transients, camped at a park near Benton on February 2 and left on February 5, though they had originally paid to stay…