Timothy Allen Wells, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Wells’s capital-murder conviction and life sentence, holding that substantial evidence supported the finding that he killed Patel during an aggravated robbery. The court also held that any error in refusing to submit the accomplice-testimony instruction was harmless because Wells’s confession and other independent evidence sufficiently connected him to the aggravated robbery and murder. Justice Hart, joined by Justice Baker, dissented, concluding that the instruction was warranted and that the error required a new trial.