Bullen v. State

Hart, J.. F. G. Bullen, Duncan Richardson and Ben Richardson were separately indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree, charged to have been committed by killing Ira H. Culp in May, 1922, in Ashley County, Ark.

At the request of the defendants, the cases were consolidated, and the defendants were jointly tried before a jury. The jury returned separate verdicts, finding each defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment.

The court had told the jury that, under such a form of verdict, the law fixed the penalty at death by electrocution. The court also…