Bruder v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Scott Circuit Court; Dcmiel Eon, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The defendant, John Bruder, was indicted for murder in the first degree, charged to have been committed by shooting Tony Bly.
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Appeal from Scott Circuit Court; Dcmiel Eon, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The defendant, John Bruder, was indicted for murder in the first degree, charged to have been committed by shooting Tony Bly. The facts proved by the State, briefly stated, are as follows: The deceased, Tony Bly, was the proprietor of a saloon in the city of Fort Smith, in Sebastian County, Arkansas, and was killed in it by the defendant shortly after 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the 23d day of January, 1913. The defendant had been in the saloon earlier in the afternoon, in the absence of the deceased, and had…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). The first assignment of error relied upon by the defendant for the reversal of the judgment of conviction is that the court erred in refusing to grant him a continuance. The motion states that T. Y. Sprinkles and Chance Rodgers would testify that, immediately prior to the killing, they were standing in front of deceased’s saloon, when some young white man came out of the saloon and told the defendant that deceased wanted him to come in the saloon and that Bruder replied: “I do not want to come in because Tony is mad. and half crazy.” That the man then said:…
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