Shadrack Ward v. State of Arkansas

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2025 Ark. App. 501

ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS DIVISION II No. CR-24-655 Opinion Delivered October 22, 2025 SHADRACK WARD APPEAL FROM THE CRAIGHEAD APPELLANT COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT V. [NO. 16JCR-22-419] STATE OF ARKANSAS HONORABLE SCOTT A. ELLINGTON, JUDGE APPELLEE AFFIRMED WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge A Craighead County Circuit Court jury convicted appellant Shadrack Ward of the first- degree murder of his fiancée, Sabrina Benson. Ward was sentenced as a habitual offender to serve a seventy-year term of incarceration in the Arkansas Division of Correction. On appeal, Ward (1)…