Legal Opinion

Billett v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided June 20, 1994No. CR 94-107PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Daniel Lee Billett was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. His single assignment is that the trial court erred in ruling that he could not cross-examine the State’s principal witness about having been pregnant and having had three abortions. The trial court’s evidentiary ruling did not constitute an abuse of discretion, and we affirm the judgment of conviction.

We do not recite all of the facts proved at trial because appellant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence. The facts involving the argument made, viewed in the light…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. Henderson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
  3. Klimas v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976
  4. Orsini v. Larry Moyer Trucking, Inc.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1992
  5. Simpson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1981

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Willett v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
  2. Passley v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1996
  3. Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2007
  4. Caldwell v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1995
  5. Gilcrease v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2009

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