STEARNS v. STATE

No. CR-18-1056.

2019 Ark.App. 486

MELISSA STEARNS, Appellant, v. STATE OF ARKANSAS, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas, Division III.

Opinion Delivered: October 23, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones Law Firm, by: F. Parker Jones III , for appellant.

Leslie Rutledge , Att'y Gen., by: Rachel Kemp , Senior Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.


On March 21, 2016, appellant Melissa Stearns was convicted in the Pulaski County Circuit Court of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Herschel Johnson. She was sentenced to a term of thirty-five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. We affirmed her conviction and sentence in Stearns v. State, ...

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