Holt v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Bandolpb Circuit Court; J. B. Baker, Judge; 1. The judgment should be reversed for misconduct of the jury, in separating and mingling with a crowd strongly prejudiced against appellant. No effort was made to controvert the truth of the affidavits filed.
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Appeal from Bandolpb Circuit Court; J. B. Baker, Judge; 1. The judgment should be reversed for misconduct of the jury, in separating and mingling with a crowd strongly prejudiced against appellant. No effort was made to controvert the truth of the affidavits filed. Such conduct of the jury is reversible error. 12 Ark. 782; 20 Id. 36, 53; 26 Id. 323; 95 Id. 428 ; 57 Id. 1, etc. 2. The court erred in its instructions to the jury. 66 Ark. 523; 42 N. W- 903; 110 Ark. 152; 33 Cyc. 1505; 46 Ark. 151; 58 Id. 353; 37 Id. 592; 49 Id. 448; 58 Id. 108. See also 62 Ark. 543; 183 S. W. 1059-1066-7-8; 191…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Miss Mae Smithson was a school teacher. She taught school at Ponder, Missouri, where she met George Holt at Sunday school. They became “sweethearts,” and he visited her frequently while she was teaching school at the school house at Ponder, Missouri, and also at her home in Reyno, Randolph County, Arkansas. Holt asked Miss Smithson to marry him and she promised to do so if he would defer the matter for two years, giving as her-reason for the delay that she was then not twenty-one years old, and that her mother was a widow and needed her assistance, and promised that if he would wait for that…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Ferguson v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
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