Butt v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Perry Circuit Court; Edward W. Winfield, Judge; 1. The testimony of M. D. E. Cook that he gave money to Covington was incompetent and inadmissible.
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Appeal from Perry Circuit Court; Edward W. Winfield, Judge; 1. The testimony of M. D. E. Cook that he gave money to Covington was incompetent and inadmissible. Before the acts and declarations of a third person may be shown against the party on trial, it must be proved with reasonable certainty that the defendant arid the person whose acts, or declarations are offered in evidence have formed a conspiracy to commit the crime for which the defendant is on trial; also that the unlawful conspiracy still exists, and that the acts or conduct of the conspirators offered in proof were in execution of…
1Opinion of the CourtRiddick, J.
• This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of the crime of bribery and sentencing him to pay a fine of two hundred dollars and to be imprisoned in the State penitentiary for the term of two years. The defendant was a member of the State Senate in 1905 when a bill appropriating eight.hundred thousand dollars for the completion of the State Capitol was pending before the Senate. The conviction was based on a charge that defendant paid Senator Adams one hundred dollars to induce him to vote for this bill. The evidence, so far as necessary to show the questions of law involved,…
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