Legal Opinion
McCree v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided September 10, 1979No. CR78-227PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Darrell Hickman, Justice.
Ardía V. McCree was tried in the Ouachita County Circuit Court for cápital felony murder; he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
On appeal he alleges five errors which we find on review to be without merit.
The evidence against McCree was mostly circumstantial, no witness was produced who saw McCree kill Evelyn Boughton, the victim.
The crime occurred shortly after 8:00 a.m., February 14, 1978, at the La Tienda Gift Shop and Service Station in Camden, Arkansas, which Mrs. Boughton owned. McCree made a statement to the police which was…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Collins v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
- Barnes v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1975
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Lockhart v. McCreeSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Grigsby v. MabryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1985
- Kitchen v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
- Clines v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1983
- Ruiz v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1989
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