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

Summary

The court affirmed Wells’s capital-murder conviction, holding that substantial evidence supported the finding that he killed Patel during an aggravated robbery and that any error in refusing an accomplice-testimony instruction was harmless because independent evidence corroborated Smith’s testimony. The court also held that conflicts in Smith’s testimony were for the jury to resolve and that the evidence, viewed in the required manner, connected Wells to the robbery and murder. Justice Josephine Linker Hart, dissenting, would have reversed and remanded for a new trial because the failure to give the accomplice instruction was prejudicial rather than harmless.