Parnell R. May v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed May's capital-murder conviction and life sentence, holding that substantial evidence supported the jury's finding that the injuries he inflicted caused Morales's death. It also upheld the exclusion of emergency-room records and a death certificate because May failed to establish the required foundation and the offered certificate was neither official nor generated by the testifying medical examiner. May's challenge to the medical examiner's testimony was unpreserved because he made no contemporaneous objection; any credibility-based sufficiency challenge was for the jury to resolve.