Tignor v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Miller Circuit Court. Joel D. Conway, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The defendant, Seburn Tignor, was indicted, tried, and convicted. of murder in the first degree for killing Andrew Lary in Miller County, on the 22d day of July, 1903, by shooting him with a gun and striking him with an ax.
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Appeal from Miller Circuit Court. Joel D. Conway, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The defendant, Seburn Tignor, was indicted, tried, and convicted. of murder in the first degree for killing Andrew Lary in Miller County, on the 22d day of July, 1903, by shooting him with a gun and striking him with an ax. At the trial two witnesses for the State testified that on the day of the killing they were going along the road towards the home of the defendant; that when they were about 200 yards distant from the house in which he lived, they heard two or three gunshots fired, and in a few moments…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of murder in the first degree. The defendant is a negro, and the person whom he killed was a negro. The evidence of his guilt is amply sufficient to-sustain the judgment, but we are of the opinion that the court erred in giving the 18th instruction set out in the statement of facts. We see nothing in the evidence that justified such an instruction.. It is not shown that any one besides the defendant and his wife and the deceased, Dary, was present at the time the killing took place. His wife was…
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