Sims v. State

On information, in due form, of the prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial district of Arkansas appellant was tried and convicted -of murder in the first degree in the circuit court of Saline county for unlawfully, feloniously, maliciously and with premeditation and deliberation, killing his wife on the 9th day of May, 1937,'with a double-bit ax.

From the judgment of conviction appellant has duly prosecuted an appeal to .this court, arguing six assignments of error contained in his motion for a new trial as grounds for reversal of said judgment.

The first assignment of error argued is…