Allison v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Deslia Circuit Court. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Warren Baldwin* a conductor in the employ of the Iron Mountain Railway Company, on the 18th of September, 1904, had charge of a passenger train on that road. This, train passed the town of Dermott at about 2 o’clock in the morning, and was going northward. Several passengers boarded the train at Der-mott, among them being O. J. Allison, a section foreman in the employ of the same road.
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Appeal from Deslia Circuit Court. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Warren Baldwin* a conductor in the employ of the Iron Mountain Railway Company, on the 18th of September, 1904, had charge of a passenger train on that road. This, train passed the town of Dermott at about 2 o’clock in the morning, and was going northward. Several passengers boarded the train at Der-mott, among them being O. J. Allison, a section foreman in the employ of the same road. Allison had come down from McGehee, a station a few miles north, on a handcar with some negroes, and was returning to McGehee on the train. As Allison…
1Opinion of the Court
RiddicK, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal by O. J. Allison from a judgment convicting him of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of ten years. Allison was a section foreman in the employ of the Iron Mountain Railway Company, and had charge of a gang of men at McGehee, Arkansas. Warren Baldwin, the man he killed, was a conductor in the employ of the same company. On the 18th day of September, 1904, he had charge of a passenger train bound northward from some point in Louisiana to Little Rock. This train arrived at…
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