Casteel v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Cross Circuit Court; R. E. L. Johnson, Judge; Defendants’ motion for new trial should have been granted for the reason that there is no corroboration of the testimony of the accomplice, Termis Butts. 208 S. W. 197. Testimony of an accomplice must be corroborated by other evidence.
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Appeal from Cross Circuit Court; R. E. L. Johnson, Judge; Defendants’ motion for new trial should have been granted for the reason that there is no corroboration of the testimony of the accomplice, Termis Butts. 208 S. W. 197. Testimony of an accomplice must be corroborated by other evidence. C. & M. Dig., § 3181; 120 Ark. 148. The evidence relied on to corroborate an accomplice must, independently and without aid of the accomplice’s testimony, tend to connect defendant with the commission of the crime. 137 Ark. 243; 1 R. C. L. 169. The court erred in admitting evidence of crimes committed by…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
This appeal is from a judgment of conviction on an indictment charging that the appellant ‘1 on the 15th day of October, 1920, did .unlawfully and feloniously manufacture, and was unlawfully and feloniously interested in the manufacture of alcoholic, vinous, malt, spirituous and fermented liquors and a compound or preparation thereof commonly called tonics, bitters or medicated liquors, etc.”
Termis Butts testified for the State substantially as follows: He lived with Casteel for two years. He saw Casteel making whiskey on the place he was living on iand assisted him. He had a still, and the…
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