Greenwood v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, First Division; Robert J. Lea, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Elijah Greenwood was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree charged to have been committed by killing Alice Turner.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, First Division; Robert J. Lea, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Elijah Greenwood was indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree charged to have been committed by killing Alice Turner. The testimony on the part of' .the State is substantially as follows: On the 29th day of November, 1912, some boys were hunting near Sweet Home, in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and, as they say, between 1 and 2 o’clock in the daytime they found the body of Alice Turner, who had been recently killed. Pier body had been dragged from a path through a fence and from six to…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
The principal ground relied upon for a reversal by the defendant is that the confession of the defendant was not voluntarily made, áncl this is the most serious question in the case. The defendant himself testified that the officers who had him in custody stripped him naked and commenced questioning him. That they threw him across the box that he was sitting on and then whipped him. That they cursed him, blindfolded him, put a wire on his thumb and then shocked him with an electric battery for twenty minutes. That one of the officers then took a rubber hose about the size of a gun barrel and…
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