Legal Opinion
Bailey v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided April 11, 1949No. 4553PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.
The verdict was: “We, the jury, find . . . John Bailey guilty of rape . . . and assess his punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary.”
From a judgment responsive to the verdict the defendant’s appeal seeks reversal on four grounds: (1) The jury was misled by the Court’s reply to questions propounded regarding the right to recommend clemency. (2) A failure to instruct • on lower degrees of crime, the only affirmative evidence showing rape, was prejudicial. (3) A preliminary hearing'was denied, hence the information should have been quashed. (4) Systematic…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Ballard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Fay v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Brickhouse v. HillSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1925
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1947
- Whittaker v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1926
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3Cited by13 opinions
- J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B.Supreme Court of the United States · 1994
- JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TBSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- McCoy v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2002
- State v. NeffSupreme Court of Kansas · 1950
- Black v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949
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