45-year sentence in stabbing death
Posted: December 6, 2011 at 3:01 p.m.
Eric Mason, 22, of Fort Smith was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to 45 years in prison and fined $10,000 after a Sebastian County Circuit Court jury convicted him of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Joshua Walter, 27, during a fight July 1.
The jury of six women and six men deliberated for 3 1/2 hours Tuesday before returning with its sentence. The jury found Mason guilty Monday.
Circuit Judge Stephen Tabor approved the jury’s sentence.
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