SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
No. CR 06-439
MICKEY DAVID THOMAS
APPELLANT,
VS.
STATE OF ARKANSAS,
APPELLEE,
Opinion Delivered May 17, 2007
APPEAL FROM SEVIER COUNTY
CIRCUIT COURT,
NO. CR-2004-52,
HON. CHARLES A. YEARGAN,
JUDGE,
AFFIRMED.
JIM GUNTER, Associate Justice
Appellant, Mickey David Thomas, appeals his conviction of two counts of capital
murder of Mona Shelton and Donna Cary. For each count a Pike County jury returned a
sentence of death. We affirm the jury’s verdict.
On June 14, 2005, DeQueen Police found the bodies of two women at Cornerstone
Monument Company after receiving a call about a possible break in. Mona Shelton, the
owner of the company, had been beaten and shot once in the head. Donna Cary, a customer,
had been shot once in the head at close range. Police received a report of a black male with
a white bag walking away from the front of Cornerstone Monument Company and getting
into a pewter or copper-colored Ford Mustang with an Oklahoma license plate. Police
broadcast this description to area law enforcement officers, and at 11:27 a.m., Trooper Jamie
Gravier of the Arkansas State Police spotted the Mustang traveling west near the Oklahoma-
Arkansas border. Gravier attempted to stop the vehicle, and a high-speed chase ensued into
Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma police ultimately located the vehicle parked behind the Broken Bow
residence of Hazel Thomas, Appellant’s mother, but the driver had already left the area. That
same afternoon, police received a report that a black male with a gun had just stolen a Broken
Bow resident’s Mercury Cougar. The Oklahoma authorities spotted the vehicle, and they
were able to apprehend Appellant.
Appellant waived extradition to Arkansas and was charged in Sevier County with two
counts of capital murder in the deaths of Mona Shelton and Donna Cary. The case was
transferred to Pike County where Appellant was convicted of two counts of capital murder
and was given a sentence of death for each count. App