Legal Opinion
Woodard v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided June 29, 1981No. CR 76-50PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
John I. Purtle, Justice.
Petitioner is an inmate at the Cummins Unit of the Department of Correction under sentence of death from the Poinsett County Circuit Court. He was convicted and sentenced to die on March 4,1976. The crime was capital felony murder in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-4702 (Supp. 1973). We affirmed in Woodard v. State, 261 Ark. 895, 553 S.W. 2d 259 (1977), cert. denied 439 U.S. 1122 (1979).
Petitioner’s first assignment of error is the incriminating confessions allegedly made on October 10 and 11, 1975. He asserts these statements were obtained in violation of his rights…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Moore v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Billy Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1987
- Scroggins v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1982
- Billy Junior Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of CorrectionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Campbell v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1986
- Woodard v. SargentDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1983
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