Dougan v. State

English, C. J.:

William Dougan, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Arkansas County, at the March term, 1875, for murdering Ahab Inman. The offense was charged to have been committed in Arkansas county.

The accused was tried on the plea of not guilty, and found guilty of murder in the first degree; motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial, were made and overruled, and he was sentenced to be hung.

On the trial, the State proved that Dougan shot Inman, his father-in-law, about a hundred yards from the east bank of White river, in Monroe county, and dragged his…