Ware v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. It was error to deny the petition for removal to the Federal court. 154 U. S. (38 Law.
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Appeal from Phillips Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. It was error to deny the petition for removal to the Federal court. 154 U. S. (38 Law. Ed.), 901; 170 U. S. 213; 100 Id. 303. . 2. It was error to overrule the petition for change of venue without giving any reason. 3. The denial of the petitions to temporarily withdraw the pleas of not guilty for the purpose of presenting motions to quash tlie indictments was an abuse of discretion. 100 U. S. 303. The motions to quash should have been restrained for maladministration of the law in selecting jurors. Ib. 4. In completing* the juries…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
These cases are separate appeals from judgments of the Phillips County Circuit Court. The cases have been consolidated here for the purpose of briefing, and they can be disposed of in one opinion. This is the second appeal. Banks v. State, 143 Ark. 154.
On the second trial each of the defendants was convicted of murder in the first degree, and by the judgment of the court sentenced to death. When each case was called for trial in the lower court, each defendant filed a petition for removal to the Feneral court, in which, among other things, it was alleged that the defendant was a negro, and…
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