RUSSEY v. STATE

No. CR 95-867.

912 S.W.2d 420 (1995)

322 Ark. 786

Ira RUSSEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

December 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Simpson, Public Defender, Bret Qualls, Deputy Public Defender, C. Joseph Cordi, Jr., Little Rock, for appellant.

Kent G. Holt, Asst. Attorney General, Little Rock, for appellee.


GLAZE, Justice.

Appellant Ira Russey was convicted by a jury of first degree murder of his wife and sentenced to forty years imprisonment. His sole point for reversal is that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing into evidence a police officer's testimony regarding a domestic violence incident which occurred between Ira and his wife, Diane, before the date he shot and killed her.

The state's evidence showed that, sometime in April of 1994, Diane...

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