McClendon v. State

On the 25th day of May, 1938, the prosecuting attorney of the 10th judicial district of Arkansas filed information in Bradley county charging appellant with murder in the first degree, committed by striking and cutting Richard Reed, with an ax on November 3, 1937, from which wounds the said Richard Reed died on March 14, 1938.

On November 7, 1938, appellant was tried in said county and convicted of murder in the first degree and on the 8th day of May was adjudged to serve for life in the penitentiary as punishment for the crime, from which an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

The…