Clark v. State

Tyrus Clark appeals from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree where a sentence of death was pronounced in conformity with the verdict of the jury trying him.

The body of the indictment is as follows:

"The grand jury of Benton County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse John Burchfield, Boyd Jewel, Elva McDonald and Tyrus Clark of the crime of murder in the first degree, committed as follows; to-wit:

"The said John Burchfield, Boyd Jewel, Elva McDonald and Tyrus Clark, in the county of Benton and State of Arkansas, on the eleventh day of June, 1925,…