Swanigan v. State

Steven Swanigan was convicted by a Garland County Circuit Court jury of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree battery for entering an apartment in Hot Springs and firing multiple gunshots killing Mayela Mata and injuring her twenty-month-old daughter and a friend, Antouin Bond. On recommendation of the jury, the circuit court sentenced Swanigan to an aggregate term of 720 months' imprisonment. He raises six points for reversal. We reject them and affirm his convictions.

I. Facts

Mayela Mata and her fiancé, Terrence Scott, lived with their daughter, ES, in a townhouse…