Reed v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Union Circuit Court; George W. Hays, Judge ; The court erred in refusing to give a peremptory instruction in favor of these appellants. There is no evidence whatever upon which to base a verdict of conviction. The most that is shown is that a crime was committed; nothing whatever to connect these defendants with the commission of that crime. The evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict of guilt as to both defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtFratjenThae, J.
The defendants, Sheppard Reed and Spurge Neasley, were convicted of the crime of grand larceny; and they urged on this appeal, as the sole ground for a reversal of the judgment, that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant their conviction. They were charged with stealing seventy-five dollars in money, the property of one George W. Moore. Mr. Moore conducted a mercantile business at Three Creeks, where there was a small collection of houses. His store house was a small frame building, in a portion of which he slept, and he kept a safe in the southwest corner of the house from which he…
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