Martin v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Polk Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge; 1. The evidence is altogether too remote to connect the defendant with receiving the bonds( in Polk County. 2. It was improper to permit the prosecuting attorney in his opening statement to the jury to say that the State would show that the defendant robbed a bank at Alma, Ark.; that he had served terms in the United States prisons, and would show the defendant’s picture taken in a rogue’s gallery.
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Appeal from Polk Circuit Court; James S. Steel, Judge; 1. The evidence is altogether too remote to connect the defendant with receiving the bonds( in Polk County. 2. It was improper to permit the prosecuting attorney in his opening statement to the jury to say that the State would show that the defendant robbed a bank at Alma, Ark.; that he had served terms in the United States prisons, and would show the defendant’s picture taken in a rogue’s gallery. Likewise in his closing argument, it was error to permit him, without reprimand, to state that he believed that the defendant was a member of…
1Opinion of the CourtHumphreys, J.
Appellant was indicted in the Polk Circuit Court for grand larceny and receiving stolen property. He was acquitted of the charge of grand larceny, but convicted of receiving.stolen property and adjudged to serve a term of five years in the State penitentiary as punishment therefor. From the judgment of conviction an appeal lias been duly prosecuted to this court.
The property charged to have been unlawfully and feloniously received by appellant with intent to deprive the owners thereof consisted of one United States registered Liberty bond of the value of $500, the property of B. F.…
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