Cannon v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Saint Francis Circuit Court. Grant Green, Jr., Judge. 1. The indictment does not charge murder in the first degree. Sand. & H. Dig. sec. 1644. 2. The court erred in refusing a continuance. 3. It was error to refuse to admit the testimony offered by appellant. 1. There was no demurrer to the indictment, and no motion in arrest of judgment.
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Appeal from Saint Francis Circuit Court. Grant Green, Jr., Judge. 1. The indictment does not charge murder in the first degree. Sand. & H. Dig. sec. 1644. 2. The court erred in refusing a continuance. 3. It was error to refuse to admit the testimony offered by appellant. 1. There was no demurrer to the indictment, and no motion in arrest of judgment. The indictment charges murder in the first degree. 2. There were no objections to the instructions. 3. There was no error in refusing the continuance. The motion does not show that appellant had made any effort whatever to procure the absent…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
3. sufficiency The appellant, James Cannon, was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree in the St. Urancis circuit court, at its September term, 1894, and appealed to this court.
The crime was alleged to have been committed on the night of the 15th, he was arrested and indicted the 20th, and trial began on the 27th, and was concluded •on the 29th September, 1894. There was no demurrer to the indictment, nor motion in arrest of judgment after conviction, but counsel for defendant, in argument, contends that the indictment is not a good indictment for murder in the first…
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