Whitted v. State

Appellants were convicted upon a trial under an indictment charging them with the crime of burglarizing the Bice Growers’ Bank of Wheatley, in St. Francis County, Arkansas. To reverse this judgment, they insisted that the trial court had erroneously failed to sustain their plea of former acquittal, it being shown that they had been tried and acquitted for robbing this bank, and that, as both transactions were based upon a single act, an acquittal upon one charge was a bar to a prosecution for the other. We overruled this contention, holding that while an offender may commit the crimes of…