False imprisonment in the second degree
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Davis v. State (2006)
Most recently applied in State v. Ewing (August 2019)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 1704; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1704.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits the offense of false imprisonment in the second degree if, without consent and without lawful authority, the person knowingly restrains another person so as to interfere substantially with the other person's liberty.
(2) False imprisonment in the second degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.