Patterson v. State

David Newbern, Justice.

The appellant, Jimmy Dale Patterson, was tried by jury, convicted of murdering Stanley Dunham, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He has raised four points of appeal. He first contends the court should have directed a verdict of acquittal for three reasons: (1) the State failed to prove the killing occurred in the course of a robbery, and thus there was no proof of the underlying offense necessary for a conviction of capital felony murder pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 5-10-101 (a)(1) (Supp. 1989); (2) venue was improperly laid in Craighead County because the killing…