Steele v. State

BILL H. WALMSLEY, Judge.

11A Hot Spring County jury found appellant Tom Buck Steele guilty of twenty counts of distributing, possessing, or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child. On two counts, the jury sentenced Steele on each count to the maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. On each of the other eighteen counts, the jury sentenced him to eight years and a $2,000 fine. The trial court ran the sentences consecutively for an aggregate term of 164 years’ imprisonment and a fine totaling $56,000. On appeal, Steele argues that (1) the trial…