James A. Ferguson v. State of Arkansas

Summary

The court affirmed Ferguson’s first-degree murder conviction and life sentence, rejecting challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence, speedy-trial calculation, jury selection, polygraph references, venue, and suppression of a recorded jail conversation. It held that the evidence sufficiently identified the decomposed body as Ferguson’s wife, that excluded delays brought the trial within the applicable speedy-trial period, and that the remaining claims were waived, unsupported, or harmless. No separate opinions were filed.