Dickerson v. State

Jim Gunter, Justice.

Appellant Arthur Dickerson was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Katherine Pennington. He raises four points for reversal. We reject his arguments, and affirm his conviction.

On March 17, 2003, at around 11:23 p.m., the Fort Smith Fire Department responded to a grass fire at the end of a dead-end street in an industrial part of Fort Smith. As the firefighters extinguished the fire, they discovered the body of Katherine Pennington, who was found nude from the waist down, with a pair of sweatpants lying next to…