Turner v. Arkansas Mental Health Department

How later courts describe this case

• stating that, “where an indictment is alleged to be invalid on its face, thereby depriving the trial court of its [subject matter] jurisdiction, a challenge to that indictment may be made at any time, even if it was not contested in the trial corut”
• finding no error in the trial court’s rejection of very similar instructions proposed by the defendant because the “[d]efendant’s proposed instructions merely articulate[d] variations on the definition.”
• defendant’s conviction for assault on a child upheld when assault was on defendant’s son