Pittman v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Scott Circuit Court; Daniel Hon, Judge; 1. Instruction 4 given on the court’s own motion was erroneous and misleading. It had a tendency to cause the jury to return a verdict for a higher grade of homicide. It induced them to surrender their conviction as to- the innocence of defendant and consent to conviction under the belief his punishment would be light. 2. It is not the law. Acts 1905. § 6, p. 518.
1Opinion of the CourtBattue, J.
Tom Pitman was indicted in the Scott Circuit Court, ar its February, 1907, term, for murder in the first degree for the killing of Walter Baucum on the 31st day of January, 1907. The killing occurred at a school house near Waldron, in Scott County. There was a school taught in the school house at the time. Pitman and the deceased were attending the school. Pitman was fourteen years of age, and the deceased was seventeen or eighteen. At noon in the recess of the school they ¡became embroiled in a difficulty, which led to blows, and ended in the killing of the deceased by Pitman stabbing him…
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