Multiple convictions — Different degrees
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Taylor v. State (1990)
Most recently applied in Vaughan v. State (September 2018)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 306; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-306.
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.
When two (2) or more persons are criminally liable for an offense of which there are different degrees, each person is liable only for the degree of the offense that is consistent with the person's own:
(1) Culpable mental state; or
(2) Accountability for an aggravating fact or circumstance.
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.