State v. Ross

TOM Glaze, Justice.

On August 31, 1999, the State charged Dexter Ross in Faulkner County Circuit Court with being a felon in possession of a firearm (FIP) in violation of Ark. Code Ann. § 5-73-103 (Repl. 1997). The State’s FIP charge was based on Ross’s earlier Conway County Circuit Court 1994 felony judgment and disposition order that placed him on four years’ probation after he entered a plea of guilty to possession of a controlled substance in violation of Ark. Code Ann. § 5-64-401 (1987). Subsequent to the State’s filing the August 1999 FIP charge, Ross went to the Conway County Circuit…