Hill v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Jessie Earl Hill was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole. There is no merit in any of his nine arguments for reversal, which we discuss in four groupings.

Hill, aged nineteen, was a suspect in a crime committed in Camden and discussed leaving Arkansas with his friend, Demarcus Tatum, aged eighteen. On the afternoon of January 17, 1995, Hill and Tatum went to Donny Ray Moss’s house where they asked Donald Thrower if they could borrow his 1990 Nissan Maxima automobile. Thrower refused to let them borrow his car, but agreed to let his cousin,…