Smith v. State

Jim Hannah, Justice.

A Clark County jury convicted appellant James “Smokey” Smith of twenty counts of violation of a minor in the first degree in violation of Ark. Code Ann. § 5-14-120 (Repl. 1997) (repealed). In accordance with the verdicts, the trial court imposed five four-year sentences for counts one through five and sentences of a zero-dollar fine for the remaining fifteen convictions. At the request of the prosecuting attorney and over Smith’s objection, the trial court ordered the five four-year sentences to be served consecutively.

At trial, the State alleged that Smith, a teacher in…