Opinion ID: 2410262
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Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Capital-felony murder/first-degree murder overlap

Text: Sanders asserts, in his seventh point for reversal, that the statutory definition of capital-felony murder found in Ark.Code Ann. § 5-10-101(a)(1), (2) (Repl.1993) is unconstitutionally vague because it overlaps with the statutory definition of first-degree murder found in Ark.Code Ann. § 5-10-102(a)(1). This is a well-worn argument we have rejected on numerous occasions, holding that the statutes are not constitutionally infirm because there is no impermissible uncertainty in the definitions of the capital-murder offenses. McArthur v. State, 309 Ark. 196, 830 S.W.2d 842 (1992); Smith v. State, 306 Ark. 483, 815 S.W.2d 922 (1991); Hill v. State, 303 Ark. 462, 798 S.W.2d 65 (1990); Sellers v. State, 300 Ark. 280, 778 S.W.2d 603 (1989).