Robertson v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
David Newbern, Justice.
Larry Dean Robertson appeals his conviction of capital murder for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Robertson was accused of murdering Mrs. Bernice Sanderlin. The evidence showed that Robertson was released from prison and taken by a prison official to Dumas where he was to get on a bus. He went into a business establishment where he stabbed Mrs. Sanderlin with a pair of scissors. The scissors penetrated her eye and brain and caused her death. He left with Mrs. Sanderlin’s purse. The judge refused at several stages of the trial to rule on…
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. John Cardillo, Lawrence Harris, Ralph Kaminsky, John Knapp, Louis Margolis, and Louis PiselliCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
- Gruzen v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1979
- United States v. Walter Seifert and Jack EhrlichCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- Westbrook v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1979
- Baker v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1982
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Whitmore Ex Rel. Simmons v. ArkansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Reynolds v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1992
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