Legal Opinion
Snell v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided December 15, 1986No. CR 85-206PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Steele Hays, Justice.
On November 1, 1984 Richard Wayne Snell was charged by information with the violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1501 by murdering William Stumpp in the course of a robbery. Stumpp’s body was found in his Texarkana, Arkansas, pawnshop on November 3, 1983. He had been shot three times in the back of the head with a .22 calibre pistol. Weapons, cash and jewelry were missing. Snell was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Numerous points of error are presented on appeal. Our jurisdiction attaches under Rule 29(l)(e). We affirm the conviction and the sentence…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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3Cited by68 opinions
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