Legal Opinion
Sheppard v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 11, 1965No. 5133PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGeorge Bose Smith, J.
The appellant, John Henry Sheppard, aged 19, was charged with having murdered Annie Yocum Willett, aged 69, in the perpetration of rape. This appeal is from a verdict and judgment finding the accused guilty of murder in the first degree and sentencing him to death.
There is not, and hardly could be, any contention that the verdict is not supported by sufficient evidence. We briefly summarize the proof. Mrs. Willett and her husband lived on a farm about ten miles west of El Dorado. On the morning of July 1,1964, Willett started for his place of work in the oil fields at about eight o’clock,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Harris v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Avery v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Bell v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
- Leggett v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1957
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Giles v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
- Richard Lee Golliher v. United States of America, Harry Richard Holmes v. United States of America, Carl Dean Wheeler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1966
- State v. RiceNebraska Supreme Court · 1972
- Turner v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1975
- John Phillips McClard Carroll Franklin Simmons, and Verlon Hershel Ussery v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
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