Johnson v. State

W.h. "Dub" ArnoldChief Justice.

In 1994, appellant Stacey Eugene Johnson was convicted of capital murder in Sevier County Circuit Court in the death of Carol Heath. He was sentenced to death. In Johnson v. State, 326 Ark. 430, 934 S.W.2d 179 (1996), hereinafter referred to as Johnson I, this Court reversed his conviction on the ground that the trial court had improperly admitted an out-of-court statement allegedly made by six-year-old Ashley Heath, daughter of the victim, in which Ashley claimed she had witnessed the murder of her mother and purported to identify appellant as the murderer.…