COLEMAN v. STATE

No. CR 93-676.

869 S.W.2d 713 (1994)

315 Ark. 610

Maurice COLEMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 31, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill E. Ross, Mikke Connealy Bracey, Blytheville, for appellant.

Kent G. Holt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


HOLT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a criminal conviction on the charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of nineteen-year-old Stephen Jerome Woodard. The appellant, Maurice Coleman, was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal, he raises three arguments for reversal: (1) his custodial statement should have been suppressed, (2) the trial court erred in failing to grant Coleman's directed verdict motion, and (3) evidence of his prior convictions should...

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