Ringer v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Dardanelle District. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. In 1902 Harve Ringer lived in Yell County, and carried on a small mercantile business in the country. On Christmas day of that year several persons met at his store, it having been reported that there was to be what the witnesses called a “turkey shooting” there, and most of these persons came to take part in or to witness the sport.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Dardanelle District. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. In 1902 Harve Ringer lived in Yell County, and carried on a small mercantile business in the country. On Christmas day of that year several persons met at his store, it having been reported that there was to be what the witnesses called a “turkey shooting” there, and most of these persons came to take part in or to witness the sport. But Ringer had no turkey, so, instead of a turkey, a chicken was put in a box with its head through a hole in the top, and each party who shot was charged a nickel. Among the persons who…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal from a judgment, convicting the defendant of voluntary manslaughter. The presiding judge refused to give the jury an instruction in reference to the crime of involuntary manslaughter, or to allow them to consider whether he was guilty of that offense. Under our law, an indictment for murder includes all the' lower grades of homicide; and where there is evidence tending to show that the defendant was guilty of one of the lower grades of homicide, the judge should instruct the jury in reference thereto, and in such case it is error for…
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