Williams v. State

J IM HANNAH, Justice.

Kenneth D. Williams was convicted of capital-felony murder and theft of property. He was sentenced to death on the capital-murder conviction and to forty years on the theft conviction under habitual-offender enhancement. While the elements of capital-felony murder may be met by sufficient proof of any of the listed felonies in the statute, the jury found by separate unanimous verdicts that the State had proven both the underlying felony of first-degree escape and the underlying felony of aggravated robbery.

We take jurisdiction pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 1-2(a) (2). On…