Man gets 18 years for negligent homicide

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette

Staff photo by Doug Strickland Jacob Scott Sims is led past his family and taken into custody on Tuesday at the Little River Courthouse in Ashdown, Ark., after pleading guilty to charges of negligent homicide and failure to stop and render aid in the Aug. 4, 2011, death of Foreman, Ark., resident L...

Staff photo by Doug Strickland An unidentified woman believed to be a family member of Jacob Scott Sims hits the camera lens of Texarkana Gazette photographer Doug Strickland after Sims’ court hearing on Tuesday at the Little River Courthouse in Ashdown, Ark.

A Winthrop, Ark., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to negligent homicide and failure to stop and render aid in a fatal vehicle crash that killed a nurse in Little River County, Ark.

Jacob Scott Sims, 21, pleaded guilty during the Little River County Circuit Court session in the Ashdown courthouse...

Published: 08/08/2012