1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. S.W.2d
  4. 783 S.W.2d
  5. 783 S.W.2d 847 (1990)
 

SEGERSTROM v. STATE

No. CR 88-62.

783 S.W.2d 847 (1990)

301 Ark. 314

Christopher SEGERSTROM, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denny Hyslip, Fayetteville, for appellant.

J. Brent Standridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

DUDLEY, Justice.

Appellant, Christopher Segerstrom, a fifteen-year-old boy, raped and killed four-year-old Barbara Thompson. Both the rape and the murder were outrageously violent: a stick was rammed into the little girl's vagina with such force that it protruded into her abdominal cavity, and she was beaten with a forty-pound rock to such an extent that her skull was partially flattened with brain matter protruding. In addition, she had abrasions to her back and...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases