Floyd v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; Hance N. Hutton, Judge; STATEMENT BY THÍ COURT. The defendants, Plenry Floyd and Isaiah Bogan, two negroes, were indicted by the grand jury of Phillips County for the crime of robbery. The indictment alleged that the robbery was committed on a person whose name was unknown to the grand jury, and that the defendants forcibly and feloniously took from such person $42- of “gold, silver and paper money, currency of the United States.”
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Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; Hance N. Hutton, Judge; STATEMENT BY THÍ COURT. The defendants, Plenry Floyd and Isaiah Bogan, two negroes, were indicted by the grand jury of Phillips County for the crime of robbery. The indictment alleged that the robbery was committed on a person whose name was unknown to the grand jury, and that the defendants forcibly and feloniously took from such person $42- of “gold, silver and paper money, currency of the United States.” The defendants entered pleas of former conviction and not guilty. A demurrer was sustained to the pleas of former conviction,…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal by Henry Floyd and Isaiah Bogan from a judgment convicting them of robbery and sentencing them to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years.
The first question presented arises on. the plea of former conviction filed by the defendants. This plea set up that they had, prior to the finding of the indictment in this case, been convicted before a justice of the peace for the crime of petit larceny, and fined $10 each for the same act complained of in this indictment. The State demurred to their plea of former conviction, and…
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