Payne v. State

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

On a charge of murder in the first degree, appellant, Frank Andrew Payne, was, on January 11, 1956, tried, found guilty as charged and his punishment fixed by the jury at death by electrocution; We affirmed, Payne v. State, 226 Ark. 910, 295 S. W. 2d 312. On appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, the judgment was reversed for error in introducing in evidence a coerced confession of appellant, Payne v. Arkansas, 356 U. S. 560, 2 L. Ed. (2d) 975, 78 S. Ct. 844. Thereafter, in April 1959, appellant was again tried and a jury again found him guilty of…