CARTER v. STATE

No. CA CR 83-62.

657 S.W.2d 213 (1983)

9 Ark.App. 206

Bessie CARTER and Audrey Thompson, Appellants, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

September 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Simpson, Jr., Public Defender by Jerome Kearney, Deputy Public Defender, Little Rock, for appellants.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by Victra L. Fewell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GLAZE, Judge.

This appeal arises from the appellants' convictions of third degree battery, for which Carter was sentenced to sixty days and Thompson to one hundred twenty days in the Pulaski County jail. Appellants rely upon one point for reversal: that the trial court erred in not finding appellants justified in resisting an unlawful intrusion into their home and an attack upon their persons by police officers.

According to testimony at trial, three Little...

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