Martin v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and first degree battery. We affirm the murder conviction but reverse the battery conviction.

On the afternoon of the murder, appellant, his girlfriend, her mother and brother, and a man named Lonnie drove from North Little Rock to Sweet Home to pick up a voucher for milk. Upon their arrival in Sweet Home, appellant asked to get out of the car at the end of Neely Road. As he was getting out he asked Lonnie to pick him up in ten to fifteen minutes on the way back to North Little Rock. Mike Callahan, who was murdered by…