Anderson v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was a trial for murder, had in the Desha Circuit Courts in May, 1843, before the Hon. Isaac Baker, one of the circuit judges. The indictment contained two counts, charging Anderson with the homicide of one George W. Bailey.
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This was a trial for murder, had in the Desha Circuit Courts in May, 1843, before the Hon. Isaac Baker, one of the circuit judges. The indictment contained two counts, charging Anderson with the homicide of one George W. Bailey. The first count, after setting forth and describing circumstantially the time, place, and manner of the killing, concludes thus, “and so the jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the said James W. Anderson, him the said George W. Bailey, in the manner and by the means aforesaid, felo-niously, wilfully, and of .his malice aforethought, did kill, and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sebastian, J.
The record presents many questions arising out of the proceedings of the circuit court of various degree and importance, some of which, it is urged, were the grounds of a new trial, and others which strike at the very foundation of the whole proceeding. We have given to the subject a very laborious investigation which was due to the importance of the subject. The indict ment, in its structure, having departed from the long established and approved forms, induced us to pause before we sanctioned 9ueh a departure. We would not permit matters of form to be disregarded,…
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