Hall v. State

Appellant Neal Allen Hall1 was charged and convicted by a Garland County jury of second-degree sexual assault and was sentenced to fifty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Hall appeals his conviction, claiming that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a mistrial. We agree.

The facts of this appeal are straightforward. On April 9, 2013, Hall was at the Goodwill store in Hot Springs, Arkansas. E.M., an eight-year-old female, was shopping with her family at the store. E.M. claimed that Hall approached her, said that he wanted to "f---" her, and inappropriately touched her…