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A previously convicted murderer is headed back to prison after a Tulsa jury found him guilty of assaulting a woman by using a sword. Jurors handed Samuel Allen Arp a 60-year prison term Thursday after convicting him of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Arp, 49, stabbed Marsha Wilson in the chest with a Samurai sword — with a blade about 3 feet long — on April 27 at their apartment in the 4800 block of South Victor Avenue, police reported. Assistant District Attorney Andrea Petersen said Wilson spent six days in the hospital. The victim’s name is listed as Marsha Watkins in some court records. Arp was also convicted of obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. During the sentencing stage, jurors learned that Arp was convicted of second-degree murder in Garfield County in 1984. He was sentenced to 51 years in prison and got out of prison in 2005, records show. When Arp was convicted of murder, Oklahoma did not have a law requiring a person to serve at least 85 percent of a prison term for murder before being eligible for parole. It does now. The felony offense of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on which he was convicted this week does not have an “85 percent” requirement.
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