Williams v. State

11 This appeal requires us to read Arkansas’s sex-offender-registration law and decide how two particular statutes apply to Larry Williams, who was convicted by the circuit court of failing to comply with the law and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment as a result. Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-904 (Supp. 2015) (failure to comply with reporting and registration requirements). Williams argues on appeal that the State didn’t prove that he had to register as a sex offender at all, so he couldn’t have violated the law when he failed to report a change of address to law-enforcement officials. He…