SIMPKINS v. STATE

No. CA CR 94-139.

889 S.W.2d 37 (1994)

48 Ark.App. 14

William SIMPKINS, Appellant v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas, Division I.

December 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. R. Simpson, Jr., Llewellyn J. Marczuk and Sandra S. Cordi, Deputies Public Defenders, Little Rock, for appellant.

Joseph V. Svoboda, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


COOPER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in a jury trial of manslaughter for the stabbing death of Harold "Bimbo" Bush. He was sentenced to ten years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in prohibiting a witness for the defense from testifying about a specific instance of the victim's prior violent conduct and that the trial court erred in allowing a statement made by...

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