Unauthorized use of another person's property to facilitate certain crimes
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State v. Banks (1995)
Most recently applied in Bryant Smith v. State of Arkansas (April 2025)
Acts 1993, No. 1002, § 1.
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 unauthorized use of another person's property to facilitate a crime if he or she knowingly uses the property of another person to facilitate in any way the violation of a predicate criminal offense without the owner's knowledge.
(2) A violation of this section is a Class B felony.
(3) The State of Arkansas is the victim in any violation of this section.
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.