Flanagin v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. Liberty Bartlett, Circuit Judge. The appellant claims that it was legitimate, in cross-examination, to go into all the circumstances connected with the arrest and informal examination of the parties jointly indicted, a part of which the prosecution had brought out, so as to ascertain whether any threats or inducements had been held out to induce the parties to testify.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. Liberty Bartlett, Circuit Judge. The appellant claims that it was legitimate, in cross-examination, to go into all the circumstances connected with the arrest and informal examination of the parties jointly indicted, a part of which the prosecution had brought out, so as to ascertain whether any threats or inducements had been held out to induce the parties to testify. The testimony as to the conduct of the prisoner when arrested was clearly illegal — he was not then charged icith an offense. Cohabitation without marriage does not render one party…
1Opinion of the CourtCompton, J.
The appellant, a colored person, rvas convicted, in the Pulaski circuit court, of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged. A motion for a now trial was overruled, and the case now comes up, by appeal, for consideration in this court.
The first question presented, is as to the admissibility of certain evidence sought to be elicited, on cross-examination of the witness Giles, who was introduced'on behalf of the State. The witness stated, on his examination in chief, that he was present when the accused was arrested and taken before one Farrington, to be interrogated; and that a…
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