Roberts v. State

Appellant Curtis Roberts appeals his conviction by a Crawford County jury on a charge of murder in the first degree, with an enhancement for committing a felony with a firearm, for which he was sentenced to a total of twenty-five years' imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Roberts argues that the trial court erred in allowing into evidence pictures of the victim found on the victim's cell phone and in restricting evidence of the victim's past violent behavior against Roberts that was relevant to his justification defense. We affirm.

On November 30, 2015, Roberts was charged…