Hughes v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried, and oonvieted in the Montgomery County Circuit Court for the crime of being an accessory before the fact to murder in the first degree, and punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for his natural life. From the judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

Appellant contends that no crime was charged in the indictment because it does not allege that Anna McKennon was murdered in the State of Arkansas and the county of Montgomery; and because it does not negative the presence of appellant at the time and place of the killing.…