Johnson v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

Appellants Floyd Johnson and Bill Keeling were convicted of killing hogs belonging to Alvin Dwiggins with intent to steal them in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-3917 (Repl. 1964). At about 7:15 a.m. on the morning of January 14, 1975, Alvin Dwiggins arrived at his hog barn on his farm some four miles east of Amity, Arkansas. He found a station wagon with a dead sow behind it and found another dead sow in the hallway of the barn. Both had been shot. Defendant Bill Keeling was lying down in the front seat of the station wagon, and another man with a toboggan over…