Slocum v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This appeal is a companion to the case, King v. State, 323 Ark. 671, 916 S.W.2d 732 (1996). Elgin King and Kenneth Slocum, the appellant here, were charged with the capital murder of Willie Simpkins. Their cases were severed, and King was convicted of the lesser included offense of first-degree murder and sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment. At his separate trial, Slocum was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole. Upon King’s appeal, we rejected the contention that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction, but we reversed, holding…