Woodall v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from White Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; The court erred in permitting the witness, Mrs. Woodall, to answer the question propounded to her, and in its instructions to the jury both in giving and refusing. No. 3 given for the State was abstract, misleading, prejudicial and erroneous.
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Appeal from White Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; The court erred in permitting the witness, Mrs. Woodall, to answer the question propounded to her, and in its instructions to the jury both in giving and refusing. No. 3 given for the State was abstract, misleading, prejudicial and erroneous. It was also error to refuse instructions Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,15, 16, 17 and 19, which are the law of this case. 1. There was no error in refusing a continuance, as refusing a motion for continuance is a matter addressed to the sound discretion of the court. 97 Ark. 643;…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
The appellant was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree in the killing of L. S. Budi-sill. He entered a plea of not guilty, and the only defense offered was insanity. He was convicted of murder in the second degree, and, from a judgment sentencing him to a period of twenty years in the State penitentiary, he appeals.
First. Mrs. B-. S. Woodall testified that she was the mother of the appellant. The record ishows that during the progress of her examination the following took place:
“Q. Was he (Lee Woodall) at the time of the killing, and had he been for some time prior thereto, on…
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