Johnson v. State

_JjOn August 6, 2014, a Pulaski County Circuit Court jury convicted appellant, James Johnson III, of capital murder and sentenced Johnson to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. 1 This timely appeal followed. This court has jurisdiction pursuant to Ark. Sup. Ct. R. l-2(a)(2) (2015).

Johnson’s appeal arises from the death of Charles Gaskins during the course of an aggravated robbery in Little Rock on July 30, 2012. Because Johnson does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, only a brief statement of the facts is necessary. The record demonstrates that around midnight on…