Tucker v. State

Ray Thornton, Justice.

Appellant Robert Tucker, an inmate in the Tucker Maximum Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the stabbing death of another inmate, Karlos Scales. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

Because appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence our summary of the facts will be brief. While being observed by a security guard, appellant obtained permission to leave his cell to take a shower, but then proceeded to the victim’s open cell as the security…