DIFFEE v. STATE

No. CR 94-905.

894 S.W.2d 564 (1995)

319 Ark. 669

Judy DIFFEE, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. R. Simpson, Public Defender, Andrew H. Beavers, Dep. Public Defender, C. Joseph Cordi, Jr., Dep. Public Defender, Little Rock, for appellant.

Brad Newman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


HOLT, Jr., Chief Justice.

The appellant, Judy Diffee, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of her mother, Edith Durham, and was sentenced to a forty-year term of imprisonment. She raises the following three points for reversal: (1) that the trial court erred in admitting testimony that she had attacked her former husband in an unrelated incident; (2) that the trial court's application of Act 535 of 1993 (Arkansas's new bifurcated sentencing laws...

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