Booth v. State

WAYMOND M. BROWN, Judge.

hOn October 5, 2012, at around 4:20 p.m., Little Rock firemen were dispatched to 3 Althea Circle, the address of a house owned by Jacqueline Booth-Clark, appellant’s wife. When the firemen arrived at the house, light smoke was coming from a bedroom on the right side of the residence. The house’s doors were locked and the windows were closed. The firemen entered the house by breaking down the ■front door, and extinguished a fire they found inside a bedroom. The door to this bedroom had been shut.

A jury trial was held on July 9-10, 2013. At trial, appellant moved for a…