Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Hot Spring Circuit Court. J. B. Wood, Judge. Dr Williams’ opinion as to the position of the deceased, etc., was materia], as it tended to show that defendant fired the shot, and was not proper matter for opinion evidence, and its admission was error. Abbotts Tr. Ev., p. 571; 18 Tex., 498-500; 24 Cent. L. J., 105; 7 S. W. Bep., 1. The instructions'for the state are abstract and misleading.
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APPEAL from Hot Spring Circuit Court. J. B. Wood, Judge. Dr Williams’ opinion as to the position of the deceased, etc., was materia], as it tended to show that defendant fired the shot, and was not proper matter for opinion evidence, and its admission was error. Abbotts Tr. Ev., p. 571; 18 Tex., 498-500; 24 Cent. L. J., 105; 7 S. W. Bep., 1. The instructions'for the state are abstract and misleading. There was no evidence that the killing was done from motives of revenge or under an impulse of passion. Insanity is a lawful defense, and like all others is to be tested by the evidence. No case…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
Williams was indicted for murder in the first degree, committed by the billing of Beatrice Randolph. He was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree.'
In the trial of the accused, witnesses testified, substantially, as follows: For two and a half years he was in the employ of John J. Sumpter as clerk in the Sumpter House, a hotel in the city of Hot Springs, in this state. During this time a man named Norris and the deceased, Beatrice Randolph, went to the Sumpter House, registered as husband and wife, took a room, and remained there for some time. While there deceased and Williams…
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