Rhodes v. State

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellant Chester Earl Rhodes and Juanita Carr were charged with capital murder in the April 21,1980 robbery and murder of Roland Kelley in Fayetteville in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1501 (Repl. 1977). Juanita Carr pleaded guilty to first degree murder, received a twenty-five year sentence and testified against the appellant. The first trial ended in a mistrial but the second trial resulted in a conviction with imposition of the death penalty.

The evidence established that Carr, then a 17-year-old prostitute, went to Roland Kelley’s house in late afternoon and…