Slayton v. State

Appellant was convicted nnder an indictment charging him with having been an accessory before the fact to the mnrder of Manley Jackson. The indictment charged Lige Dame and Earl Decker with the commission of the mnrder, and that appellant had advised and induced its commission.

Decker was pnt npon trial as a principal, and npon his conviction was given a life sentence in the penitentiary. This judgment was affirmed on the appeal to this court, and the theory of the State’s case was outlined in the opinion affirming that sentence. Decker v. State, 185 Ark. 1085, 51 S. W. (2d) 521.

It was the…