Burns v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant appeals his convictions of rape, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and theft. We accept jurisdiction under Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 29(l)(b) because appellant received a combined sentence of life plus seventy-five years. He raises two issues, arguing first that the trial court erred by denying his motion for continuance and second that the court erred by denying him an instruction for a lesser included offense. We summarily dispose of appellant’s second point because he failed at trial to proffer an instruction, setting out the lesser included offense to which he now says…