Shuffield v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Hot Spring 'Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; The State wholly failed to prove the corpus delicti. The presumption is that the fire was either the result of accideut «or some providential.cause. 253 Mo. 487; 98 Miss. 723. The court erred in permitting W. T. Shuffield to state to the jury that the ham was set ou fire. The appellant did not place his character in issue and hence it could not he assailed. 14 Cent.
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Appeal from Hot Spring 'Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; The State wholly failed to prove the corpus delicti. The presumption is that the fire was either the result of accideut «or some providential.cause. 253 Mo. 487; 98 Miss. 723. The court erred in permitting W. T. Shuffield to state to the jury that the ham was set ou fire. The appellant did not place his character in issue and hence it could not he assailed. 14 Cent. Digest, .Sec. 839, p. 1487; 165 S. W. Tex. 194. The corpus delicti may be proven hy circumstantial evidence «as well as hy positive evidence. 28 L. B. A. (N.S.) 538 note;…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
Walter Shuffield and Walter Counts were jointly indicted for the crime of «arson charged to have been committed hy burning the ham of W. T. .Shuffield on the 22d day of November, 1914, in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. They severed and the defendant Shuffield was convicted and from the judgment of conviction has duly prosecuted this appeal. On the trial of Shuffield the State proved a state of facts substantially as follows:
W. T. Shuffield was constable of Bismarck Township in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, and on the night of-November 22, 1914, was called to a church in the township to quell a…
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