HOLT, Justice.
The appellant was convicted of capital murder. Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-1501 (Repl. 1977). The jury fixed his punishment at life imprisonment without parole. We reverse.
Vera Rhoden was brutally murdered in her home on June 6, 1980, during the course of an apparent burglary and robbery. She died from repeated blows to the head with a claw hammer. In April 1981 Freddie Lee Hendrix was arrested on an unrelated charge of aggravated assault. While...
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